Biophotovoltaics: Recent advances and perspectives

H Zhu, H Wang, Y Zhang, Y Li - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Biophotovoltaics (BPV) is a clean power generation technology that uses self-renewing
photosynthetic microorganisms to capture solar energy and generate electrical current …

Rewiring photosynthetic electron transport chains for solar energy conversion

JM Lawrence, RM Egan, T Hoefer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Photosynthetic organisms have evolved versatile electron transport chains that efficiently
convert solar energy into chemical energy. Researchers can engineer these electron …

Enhancing power density of biophotovoltaics by decoupling storage and power delivery

KL Saar, P Bombelli, DJ Lea-Smith, T Call, EM Aro… - Nature energy, 2018 - nature.com
Biophotovoltaic devices (BPVs), which use photosynthetic organisms as active materials to
harvest light, have a range of attractive features relative to synthetic and non-biological …

From microorganism-based amperometric biosensors towards microbial fuel cells

E Andriukonis, R Celiesiute-Germaniene… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on the overview of microbial amperometric biosensors and microbial
biofuel cells (MFC) and shows how very similar principles are applied for the design of both …

Redox polymers in bioelectrochemistry: Common playgrounds and novel concepts

A Ruff - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Redox polymers are used for the immobilization and electrical wiring of
enzymes.•Rational design of redox polymers is important for the fabrication of efficient …

Microbial biofuel cells: Fundamental principles, development and recent obstacles

K Kižys, A Zinovičius, B Jakštys, I Bružaitė, E Balčiūnas… - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on the development of microbial biofuel cells to demonstrate how
similar principles apply to the development of bioelectronic devices. The low specificity of …

Development of a longevous two-species biophotovoltaics with constrained electron flow

H Zhu, H Meng, W Zhang, H Gao, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microbial biophotovoltaics (BPV) offers a biological solution for renewable energy
production by using photosynthetic microorganisms as light absorbers. Although abiotic …

Microalgae Film‐Derived Water Evaporation‐Induced Electricity Generator with Negative Carbon Emission

S Xu, Y Zhao, S Jiao, Z Wang, Z Yu, C Sun… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water evaporation–induced electricity generators (WEGs) are regarded as one of the most
promising solutions for addressing the increasingly severe environmental pollution and …

Rational design of artificial redox-mediating systems toward upgrading photobioelectrocatalysis

NS Weliwatte, M Grattieri, SD Minteer - Photochemical & Photobiological …, 2021 - Springer
Photobioelectrocatalysis has recently attracted particular research interest owing to the
possibility to achieve sunlight-driven biosynthesis, biosensing, power generation, and other …

Evaluation of photoanode materials used in biophotovoltaic systems for renewable energy generation

M Anam, HI Gomes, G Rivers, RL Gomes… - Sustainable Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological photovoltaic (BPV) cells are living solar panels capable of producing clean
energy by extracting electrons from sunlight (in daytime) and stored carbon in microbial cells …