Electronic conductivity in living biofilms: physical meaning, mechanisms, and measurement methods

NS Malvankar, DR Lovley, H Beyenal… - Biofilms in …, 2015 - books.google.com
… measure the newly discovered conductive properties of biofilms. Firstly, we describe the
physical meaning of electronic conductivity and different mechanisms of conductivity. Then, we …

Redox conduction in biofilms: From respiration to living electronics

LA Zacharoff, MY El-Naggar - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
… In other words, the gated transport characteristics of living biofilms revealed a redox … of
this conductivity on temperature revealed that the biofilm electron transport is a thermally …

Characterizing electron transport through living biofilms

M Yates, S Strycharz-Glaven, J Golden, J Roy… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2018 - jove.com
conductivity of electrode-grown microbial biofilms under physiologically relevant conditions.
These measurements are performed on living biofilms … A biofilm is grown that extends across …

Engineered living conductive biofilms as functional materials

LJ Bird, EL Onderko, DA Phillips, RL Mickol… - MRS …, 2019 - cambridge.org
… to precisely engineer the living component. … living organisms, an approach now being
implemented to re-engineer natural living conductive biofilms or engineer extracellular electron

Stay connected: Electrical conductivity of microbial aggregates

C Li, KL Lesnik, H Liu - Biotechnology Advances, 2017 - Elsevier
… understanding of electrical conductivity in microbial aggregates (eg biofilms, granules, …
The observation of conductive current through living materials is a relatively new discovery. …

Measuring conductivity of living Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms

MD Yates, SM Strycharz-Glaven, JP Golden… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
living electrode-grown G. sulfurreducens biofilms, we obtained a distinctly different conductivity
versus gate potential response — one consistent with redox conductivity, similar to that of …

Reply to 'Measuring conductivity of living Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms'

NS Malvankar, VM Rotello, MT Tuominen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
… , confluent biofilm for their measurements. Therefore, at –450 mV, the open-circuit potential
at which we made our conductivity measurements, we measured biofilm conductivities of 50 …

Thermally activated long range electron transport in living biofilms

MD Yates, JP Golden, J Roy… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
electronic properties. Here we report that electron transport through living electrode-grown
Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms is a thermally activated process with incoherent redox …

Advances in mechanisms and engineering of electroactive biofilms

Z You, J Li, Y Wang, D Wu, F Li, H Song - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
… engineering the formation and electron conductivity of EABs from … biofilms to improve the
biofilm formation ability, (ii) optimizing the conductive elements to improve the interface electron

Biofilm conductivity is a decisive variable for high-current-density Geobacter sulfurreducens microbial fuel cells

NS Malvankar, MT Tuominen, DR Lovley - Energy & Environmental …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
… However, living biofilms are unique in that the properties of the catalytic layer rapidly
change in response to an alteration in environmental conditions or other manipulations that …