Electroactive microorganisms in bioelectrochemical systems

BE Logan, R Rossi, A Ragab, PE Saikaly - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
A vast array of microorganisms from all three domains of life can produce electrical current
and transfer electrons to the anodes of different types of bioelectrochemical systems. These …

Microbial electrosynthesis—revisiting the electrical route for microbial production

K Rabaey, RA Rozendal - Nature reviews microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
Microbial electrocatalysis relies on microorganisms as catalysts for reactions occurring at
electrodes. Microbial fuel cells and microbial electrolysis cells are well known in this context; …

[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 …

The microbe electric: conversion of organic matter to electricity

DR Lovley - Current opinion in Biotechnology, 2008 - Elsevier
Broad application of microbial fuel cells will require substantial increases in current density.
A better understanding of the microbiology of these systems may help. Recent studies have …

Overview of electroactive microorganisms and electron transfer mechanisms in microbial electrochemistry

BS Thapa, T Kim, S Pandit, YE Song, YP Afsharian… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms acting as microbial electrocatalysts have intrinsic metabolisms
that mediate a redox potential difference between solid electrodes and microbes, leading to …

Is there a specific ecological niche for electroactive microorganisms?

C Koch, F Harnisch - ChemElectroChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The core of primary microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) is the ability of the
electroactive microorganisms to interact with electrodes via extracellular electron transfer …

Electroactive bacteria—molecular mechanisms and genetic tools

A Sydow, T Krieg, F Mayer, J Schrader… - Applied microbiology and …, 2014 - Springer
In nature, different bacteria have evolved strategies to transfer electrons far beyond the cell
surface. This electron transfer enables the use of these bacteria in bioelectrochemical …

Exoelectrogenic bacteria that power microbial fuel cells

BE Logan - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
There has been an increase in recent years in the number of reports of microorganisms that
can generate electrical current in microbial fuel cells. Although many new strains have been …

Microbial ecology meets electrochemistry: electricity-driven and driving communities

K Rabaey, J Rodríguez, LL Blackall, J Keller… - The ISME …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Bio-electrochemical systems (BESs) have recently emerged as an exciting technology. In a
BES, bacteria interact with electrodes using electrons, which are either removed or supplied …

Powering microbes with electricity: direct electron transfer from electrodes to microbes

DR Lovley - Environmental microbiology reports, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of electrotrophs, microorganisms that can directly accept electrons from
electrodes for the reduction of terminal electron acceptors, has spurred the investigation of a …