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] Bioelectrochemical systems and synthetic biology: more power, more products

SM Glaven - Microbial Biotechnology, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) are applications or processes that utilize the
electrochemical interaction of microbes and electrodes (Schroder et al., 2015). It has been …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in biological approaches towards anode biofilm engineering for improvement of extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells

T Naaz, A Kumar, A Vempaty, N Singhal… - Environmental …, 2023 - eeer.org
Over the last two decades, scientific communities have been more interested in turning
organic waste materials into bioenergy. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) can degrade organic …

Extracellular electron transfer features of Gram-positive bacteria

G Pankratova, L Hederstedt, L Gorton - Analytica chimica acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms possess the unique ability to transfer electrons to or from solid
phase electron conductors, eg, electrodes or minerals, through various physiological …

Balancing cellular redox metabolism in microbial electrosynthesis and electro fermentation–A chance for metabolic engineering

F Kracke, B Lai, S Yu, JO Krömer - Metabolic engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
More and more microbes are discovered that are capable of extracellular electron transfer, a
process in which they use external electrodes as electron donors or acceptors for metabolic …

Enhanced current production by exogenous electron mediators via synergy of promoting biofilm formation and the electron shuttling process

Y Wu, X Luo, B Qin, F Li… - … Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Exogenous electron mediators (EMs) can facilitate extracellular electron transfer (EET) via
electron shuttling processes, but it is still unclear whether and how biofilm formation is …

[HTML][HTML] Let's chat: Communication between electroactive microorganisms

CM Paquete, MA Rosenbaum, L Bañeras… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms can exchange electrons with other cells or conductive
interfaces in their extracellular environment. This property opens the way to a broad range of …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial electron transport and energy conservation–the foundation for optimizing bioelectrochemical systems

F Kracke, I Vassilev, JO Krömer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Microbial electrochemical techniques describe a variety of emerging technologies that use
electrode–bacteria interactions for biotechnology applications including the production of …

Microfluidic dielectrophoresis illuminates the relationship between microbial cell envelope polarizability and electrochemical activity

Q Wang, AAD Jones III, JA Gralnick, L Lin, CR Buie - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Electrons can be transported from microbes to external insoluble electron acceptors (eg,
metal oxides or electrodes in an electrochemical cell). This process is known as extracellular …

Spatiotemporal mapping of bacterial membrane potential responses to extracellular electron transfer

S Pirbadian, MS Chavez… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) allows microorganisms to gain energy by linking
intracellular reactions to external surfaces ranging from natural minerals to the electrodes of …