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 …

Revisiting solar energy flow in nanomaterial-microorganism hybrid systems

J Liang, K **ao, X Wang, T Hou, C Zeng, X Gao… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterial-microorganism hybrid systems (NMHSs), integrating semiconductor
nanomaterials with microorganisms, present a promising platform for broadband solar …

Microbial biofilms for electricity generation from water evaporation and power to wearables

X Liu, T Ueki, H Gao, TL Woodard, KP Nevin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Employing renewable materials for fabricating clean energy harvesting devices can further
improve sustainability. Microorganisms can be mass produced with renewable feedstocks …

Microbial extracellular electron transfer and strategies for engineering electroactive microorganisms

J Zhao, F Li, Y Cao, X Zhang, T Chen, H Song… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms (EAMs) are ubiquitous in nature and have attracted
considerable attention as they can be used for energy recovery and environmental …

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 …

Engineering wired life: synthetic biology for electroactive bacteria

LJ Bird, BB Kundu, T Tschirhart, AD Corts… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electroactive bacteria produce or consume electrical current by moving electrons to and
from extracellular acceptors and donors. This specialized process, known as extracellular …

Generic Air‐Gen Effect in Nanoporous Materials for Sustainable Energy Harvesting from Air Humidity

X Liu, H Gao, L Sun, J Yao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Air humidity is a vast, sustainable reservoir of energy that, unlike solar and wind, is
continuously available. However, previously described technologies for harvesting energy …

Cytochromes in Extracellular Electron Transfer in Geobacter

T Ueki - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is an important biological process in microbial
physiology as found in dissimilatory metal oxidation/reduction and interspecies electron …