Reaching full potential: bioelectrochemical systems for storing renewable energy in chemical bonds

L Su, CM Ajo-Franklin - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) electrochemically couple microbes and
materials.•BESs use electricity or light energy to reduce CO 2 to key chemical …

Construction of a Geobacter Strain With Exceptional Growth on Cathodes

T Ueki, KP Nevin, TL Woodard, MA Aklujkar… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Insoluble extracellular electron donors are important sources of energy for anaerobic
respiration in biogeochemical cycling and in diverse practical applications. The previous …

Self-replicating biophotoelectrochemistry system for sustainable CO methanation

C Wang, J Yu, G Ren, A Hu, X Liu, Y Chen… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Efficient conversion of CO-rich gas to methane (CH4) provides an effective energy solution
by taking advantage of existing natural gas infrastructures. However, traditional chemical …

Clostridium kluyveri enhances caproate production by synergistically cooperating with acetogens in mixed microbial community of electro-fermentation system

C Zhang, H Liu, P Wu, J Li, J Zhang - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
As a chain elongation (CE) model strain, Clostridium kluyveri has been used in the studies
of bioaugmentation of caproate production. However, its application in the novel electro …

Production of long chain alkyl esters from carbon dioxide and electricity by a two-stage bacterial process

T Lehtinen, E Efimova, PL Tremblay, S Santala… - Bioresource …, 2017 - Elsevier
Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a promising technology for the reduction of carbon
dioxide into value-added multicarbon molecules. In order to broaden the product profile of …

Highly conductive poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate polymer coated cathode for the microbial electrosynthesis of acetate from carbon dioxide

N Aryal, PL Tremblay, M Xu, AE Daugaard… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a bioelectrochemical technology developed for the
conversion of carbon dioxide and electric energy into multicarbon chemicals of interest. As …

Extracellular electron transfer in acetogenic bacteria and its application for conversion of carbon dioxide into organic compounds

K Igarashi, S Kato - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2017 - Springer
Acetogenic bacteria (ie, acetogens) produce acetate from CO 2 during anaerobic
chemoautotrophic growth. Because acetogens fix CO 2 with high energy efficiency, they …

Impact of the start-up process on the microbial communities in biocathodes for electrosynthesis

R Mateos, A Sotres, RM Alonso, A Escapa, A Morán - Bioelectrochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
This study seeks to understand how the bacterial communities that develop on biocathodes
are influenced by inocula diversity and electrode potential during start-up. Two different …

Biochar based cathode enriched with hydroxyapatite and Cu nanoparticles boosting electromethanogenesis

G Ghiara, S Campisi, A Goglio, F Formicola… - Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Electromethanogenesis is an innovative technology addressing the need of storing
renewable energy from unprogrammable sources. It allows for the electrochemical …

Accelerated H2 Evolution during Microbial Electrosynthesis with Sporomusa ovata

PL Tremblay, N Faraghiparapari, T Zhang - Catalysts, 2019 - mdpi.com
Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a process where bacteria acquire electrons from a
cathode to convert CO2 into multicarbon compounds or methane. In MES with Sporomusa …