Electroactive biofilms: how microbial electron transfer enables bioelectrochemical applications

EM Conners, K Rengasamy… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Microbial biofilms are ubiquitous. In marine and freshwater ecosystems, microbe–mineral
interactions sustain biogeochemical cycles, while biofilms found on plants and animals can …

A three-dimensional hybrid electrode with electroactive microbes for efficient electrogenesis and chemical synthesis

X Fang, S Kalathil, G Divitini… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Integration of electroactive bacteria into electrodes combines strengths of intracellular
biochemistry with electrochemistry for energy conversion and chemical synthesis. However …

[HTML][HTML] Electroactive biofilms on surface functionalized anodes: The anode respiring behavior of a novel electroactive bacterium, Desulfuromonas acetexigens

KP Katuri, S Kamireddy, P Kavanagh, A Muhammad… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Surface chemistry is known to influence the formation, composition, and electroactivity of
electron-conducting biofilms. However, understanding of the evolution of microbial …

Microbial electrochemical systems: principles, construction and biosensing applications

RYA Hassan, F Febbraio, S Andreescu - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Microbial electrochemical systems are a fast emerging technology that use microorganisms
to harvest the chemical energy from bioorganic materials to produce electrical power. Due to …

Electron storage in electroactive biofilms

A Ter Heijne, MA Pereira, J Pereira, T Sleutels - Trends in Biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
Microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) are promising for sustainable applications.
Recently, electron storage during intermittent operation of electroactive biofilms (EABs) has …

Systemic Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Changes in Multi‐Species Electroactive Biofilms to Clarify the Gradual Decline of Current Generation in Microbial Anodes

L Martinez Ostormujof, S Teychené… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The decrease in the electrochemical activity of multi‐species microbial anodes in
bioelectrochemical systems is the main bottleneck to overcome for bringing these …

Cultivating electroactive microbes—from field to bench

MO Yee, J Deutzmann, A Spormann… - Nanotechnology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Electromicrobiology is an emerging field investigating and exploiting the interaction of
microorganisms with insoluble electron donors or acceptors. Some of the most recently …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid characterization of bacterial electrogenicity using a single-sheet paper-based electrofluidic array

Y Gao, DJ Hassett, S Choi - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Electrogenicity, or bacterial electron transfer capacity, is an important application which
offers environmentally sustainable advances in the fields of biofuels, wastewater treatment …

Effect of electrode spacing on electron transfer and conductivity of Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms

P Liu, A Mohamed, P Liang, H Beyenal - Bioelectrochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand electron transport in electrochemically active biofilms, it is necessary to
elucidate the heterogeneous electron transport across the biofilm/electrode interface and in …

Microfluidic microbial bioelectrochemical systems: an integrated investigation platform for a more fundamental understanding of electroactive bacterial biofilms

S Pinck, LM Ostormujof, S Teychené, B Erable - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
It is the ambition of many researchers to finally be able to close in on the fundamental,
coupled phenomena that occur during the formation and expression of electrocatalytic …