Electrotrophy: Other microbial species, iron, and electrodes as electron donors for microbial respirations

DR Lovley - Bioresource technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrotrophy, the growth of microbes on extracellular electron donors, drives important
biogeochemical cycles and has practical applications. Studies of Fe (II)-based electrotrophy …

Accelerated Microbial Corrosion by Magnetite and Electrically Conductive Pili through Direct Fe0‐to‐Microbe Electron Transfer

Y Jin, E Zhou, T Ueki, D Zhang, Y Fan, D Xu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrobiocorrosion, the process in which microbes extract electrons from metallic iron (Fe0)
through direct Fe0‐microbe electrical connections, is thought to contribute to the costly …

Exploring novel approaches to enhance start-up process in microbial fuel cell: A comprehensive review

Q Li, Y Wang, C An, H Jia, J Wang - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The depletion of fossil fuels and the energy crisis have triggered worldwide interest in
renewable energy. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a green technology that can utilize organic …

Lack of physiological evidence for cytochrome filaments functioning as conduits for extracellular electron transfer

IA Schwarz, B Alsaqri, Y Lekbach, K Henry, S Gorman… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular cytochrome filaments are proposed to serve as conduits for long-range
extracellular electron transfer. The primary functional physiological evidence has been the …

[HTML][HTML] On the existence of pilin-based microbial nanowires

DR Lovley - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There is a debate whether Geobacter sulfurreducens produces electrically conductive pili (e-
pili) from its pilin monomer, PilA, a protein encoded by gene GSU 1496. G. sulfurreducens …

[HTML][HTML] Филогенетическое разнообразие микроорганизмов источника Абаканский Аржан-потенциальных продуцентов микробной энергии

АИ Дмитриева, ЕР Фасхутдинова… - Техника и …, 2022 - cyberleninka.ru
Микробная энергия-одно из перспективных направлений инновационных разработок в
области био-и нанотехнологий. Результаты многочисленных исследований последних …

Genetic manipulation of Desulfovibrio ferrophilus and evaluation of Fe (III) oxide reduction mechanisms

T Ueki, TL Woodard, DR Lovley - Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The sulfate-reducing microbe Desulfovibrio ferrophilus is of interest due to its relatively rare
ability to also grow with Fe (III) oxide as an electron acceptor and its rapid corrosion of …

Expression of filaments of the Geobacter extracellular cytochrome OmcS in Shewanella oneidensis

T Lin, W Ding, D Zhang, Z You, Y Yang… - Biotechnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The physiological role of Geobacter sulfurreducens extracellular cytochrome filaments is a
matter of debate and the development of proposed electronic device applications of …

Building structured, functional materials inspired by nature: Using peptides, peptoids, and polymerizations

BJ Montz, T Emrick - Journal of Polymer Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The assembly of peptide and peptide‐inspired building blocks into functional, well‐defined,
multi‐length scale materials represents an exciting, rapidly expanding research field that …

Phylogenetic diversity of microorganisms from the Abakan Arzhan thermal spring: potential producers of microbial energy.

AI Dmitrieva, ER Faskhutdinova, MY Drozdova… - 2022 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Microbial energy is a promising area of innovative development in bio-and nanotechnology.
Recent studies have revealed that microbial communities of thermal springs have excellent …