Engineered living hydrogels

X Liu, ME Inda, Y Lai, TK Lu, X Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Living biological systems, ranging from single cells to whole organisms, can sense, process
information, and actuate in response to changing environmental conditions. Inspired by …

Recent advancements in microbial fuel cells: A review on its electron transfer mechanisms, microbial community, types of substrates and design for bio …

S Prathiba, PS Kumar, DVN Vo - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The development in urbanization, growth in industrialization and deficiency in crude oil
wealth has made to focus more for the renewable and also sustainable spotless energy …

Advances in microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment

L He, P Du, Y Chen, H Lu, X Cheng, B Chang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Resources scarcity and electricity demand have been dramatically increasing. Wastewater
is recognized as one of resources for water, energy and plant fertilizing nutrients …

Beneficial applications of biofilms

LA Philipp, K Bühler, R Ulber, J Gescher - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Many microorganisms live in the form of a biofilm. Although they are feared in the medical
sector, biofilms that are composed of non-pathogenic organisms can be highly beneficial in …

Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) for sustainable energy production and product recovery from organic wastes and industrial wastewaters

D Pant, A Singh, G Van Bogaert, SI Olsen, PS Nigam… - Rsc Advances, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are unique systems capable of converting the chemical
energy of organic waste including low-strength wastewaters and lignocellulosic biomass …

Cathodes as electron donors for microbial metabolism: which extracellular electron transfer mechanisms are involved?

M Rosenbaum, F Aulenta, M Villano… - Bioresource technology, 2011 - Elsevier
This review illuminates extracellular electron transfer mechanisms that may be involved in
microbial bioelectrochemical systems with biocathodes. Microbially-catalyzed cathodes are …

Recent insights into microalgae-assisted microbial fuel cells for generating sustainable bioelectricity

ME Elshobary, HM Zabed, J Yun, G Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Power generation from the renewable biomass sources using microbial fuel cell (MFC) has
attracted significant attention in recent years, while chemical energy stored in microalgae …

Consortia of cyanobacteria/microalgae and bacteria: biotechnological potential

SR Subashchandrabose, B Ramakrishnan… - Biotechnology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Microbial metabolites are of huge biotechnological potential and their production can be
coupled with detoxification of environmental pollutants and wastewater treatment mediated …

Microbial fuel cell hybrid systems for wastewater treatment and bioenergy production: synergistic effects, mechanisms and challenges

Y Zhang, M Liu, M Zhou, H Yang, L Liang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology relies on electroactive bacteria to degrade organic
molecules for bioelectricity production. MFC is a potentially useful approach for wastewater …

Is there a specific ecological niche for electroactive microorganisms?

C Koch, F Harnisch - ChemElectroChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The core of primary microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) is the ability of the
electroactive microorganisms to interact with electrodes via extracellular electron transfer …