Electroactive microorganisms in bioelectrochemical systems

BE Logan, R Rossi, A Ragab, PE Saikaly - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
A vast array of microorganisms from all three domains of life can produce electrical current
and transfer electrons to the anodes of different types of bioelectrochemical systems. These …

Electron transfer beyond the outer membrane: putting electrons to rest

JA Gralnick, DR Bond - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is the physiological process that enables the reduction
or oxidation of molecules and minerals beyond the surface of a microbial cell. The first …

Structure of Geobacter cytochrome OmcZ identifies mechanism of nanowire assembly and conductivity

Y Gu, MJ Guberman-Pfeffer, V Srikanth, C Shen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
OmcZ nanowires produced by Geobacter species have high electron conductivity (> 30 S
cm− 1). Of 111 cytochromes present in G. sulfurreducens, OmcZ is the only known nanowire …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review

C Santoro, C Arbizzani, B Erable, I Ieropoulos - Journal of power sources, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract In the past 10–15 years, the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has captured the
attention of the scientific community for the possibility of transforming organic waste directly …

RETRACTED: 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 …

Electricigens in the anode of microbial fuel cells: pure cultures versus mixed communities

Y Cao, H Mu, W Liu, R Zhang, J Guo, M **an… - Microbial cell …, 2019 - Springer
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an environmentally friendly technology for electricity harvesting
from a variety of substrates. Microorganisms used as catalysts in the anodic chamber, which …

Geobacter Protein Nanowires

DR Lovley, DJF Walker - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The study of electrically conductive protein nanowires in Geobacter sulfurreducens has led
to new concepts for long-range extracellular electron transport, as well as for the …

Recent advances in the theory and molecular simulation of biological electron transfer reactions

J Blumberger - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW The transfer and transport of electrons through
biological matter is one of the key steps underlying cellular energy harvesting, storage, and …

Tunable metallic-like conductivity in microbial nanowire networks

NS Malvankar, M Vargas, KP Nevin, AE Franks… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Electronic nanostructures made from natural amino acids are attractive because of their
relatively low cost, facile processing and absence of toxicity,,. However, most materials …

Does it have to be carbon? Metal anodes in microbial fuel cells and related bioelectrochemical systems

A Baudler, I Schmidt, M Langner, A Greiner… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Copper and silver are antimicrobial metals, on whose surface bacteria do not grow. As our
paper demonstrates, this commonly reported antimicrobial property does not apply to …