Electromicrobiology: the ecophysiology of phylogenetically diverse electroactive microorganisms

DR Lovley, DE Holmes - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Electroactive microorganisms markedly affect many environments in which they establish
outer-surface electrical contacts with other cells and minerals or reduce soluble extracellular …

Fundamentals, applications, and future directions of bioelectrocatalysis

H Chen, O Simoska, K Lim, M Grattieri, M Yuan… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bioelectrocatalysis is an interdisciplinary research field combining biocatalysis and
electrocatalysis via the utilization of materials derived from biological systems as catalysts to …

Power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires

X Liu, H Gao, JE Ward, X Liu, B Yin, T Fu, J Chen… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Harvesting energy from the environment offers the promise of clean power for self-sustained
systems,. Known technologies—such as solar cells, thermoelectric devices and mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of microbial nanowires reveals stacked hemes that transport electrons over micrometers

F Wang, Y Gu, JP O'Brien, MY Sophia, SE Yalcin… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary Long-range (> 10 μm) transport of electrons along networks of Geobacter
sulfurreducens protein filaments, known as microbial nanowires, has been invoked to …

Extracellular electron transfer mechanisms between microorganisms and minerals

L Shi, H Dong, G Reguera, H Beyenal, A Lu… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Electrons can be transferred from microorganisms to multivalent metal ions that are
associated with minerals and vice versa. As the microbial cell envelope is neither physically …

Overview of electroactive microorganisms and electron transfer mechanisms in microbial electrochemistry

BS Thapa, T Kim, S Pandit, YE Song, YP Afsharian… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms acting as microbial electrocatalysts have intrinsic metabolisms
that mediate a redox potential difference between solid electrodes and microbes, leading to …

Syntrophy goes electric: direct interspecies electron transfer

DR Lovley - Annual review of microbiology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) has biogeochemical significance, and practical
applications that rely on DIET or DIET-based aspects of microbial physiology are growing …

The progress and outlook of bioelectrocatalysis for the production of chemicals, fuels and materials

H Chen, F Dong, SD Minteer - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Bioelectrocatalysis is a green, sustainable, efficient method to produce value-added
chemicals, clean biofuels and degradable materials. As an alternative approach to modern …

Accelerated Microbial Corrosion by Magnetite and Electrically Conductive Pili through Direct Fe0‐to‐Microbe Electron Transfer

Y **, E Zhou, T Ueki, D Zhang, Y Fan, D Xu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrobiocorrosion, the process in which microbes extract electrons from metallic iron (Fe0)
through direct Fe0‐microbe electrical connections, is thought to contribute to the costly …

Engineering extracellular electron transfer pathways of electroactive microorganisms by synthetic biology for energy and chemicals production

J Zhang, F Li, D Liu, Q Liu, H Song - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The excessive consumption of fossil fuels causes massive emission of CO2, leading to
climate deterioration and environmental pollution. The development of substitutes and …