Engineered living materials for sustainability

B An, Y Wang, Y Huang, X Wang, Y Liu, D Xun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Materials design by synthetic biology

TC Tang, B An, Y Huang, S Vasikaran, Y Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Synthetic biology applies genetic tools to engineer living cells and organisms analogous to
the programming of machines. In materials synthetic biology, engineering principles from …

Functional graphene nanomaterials based architectures: biointeractions, fabrications, and emerging biological applications

C Cheng, S Li, A Thomas, NA Kotov, R Haag - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Functional graphene nanomaterials (FGNs) are fast emerging materials with extremely
unique physical and chemical properties and physiological ability to interfere and/or interact …

Single cell electron collectors for highly efficient wiring-up electronic abiotic/biotic interfaces

YY Yu, YZ Wang, Z Fang, YT Shi, QW Cheng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
By electronically wiring-up living cells with abiotic conductive surfaces, bioelectrochemical
systems (BES) harvest energy and synthesize electric-/solar-chemicals with unmatched …

Recent advances in graphene‐based materials for fuel cell applications

H Su, YH Hu - Energy Science & Engineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The unique chemical and physical properties of graphene and its derivatives (graphene
oxide, heteroatom‐doped graphene, and functionalized graphene) have stimulated …

Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion

X Fang, S Kalathil, E Reisner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents a comprehensive summary of the recent development in semi-artificial
photosynthesis, a biological-material hybrid approach to solar-to-chemical conversion that …

Engineering extracellular electron transfer pathways of electroactive microorganisms by synthetic biology for energy and chemicals production

J Zhang, F Li, D Liu, Q Liu, H Song - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The excessive consumption of fossil fuels causes massive emission of CO2, leading to
climate deterioration and environmental pollution. The development of substitutes and …

Carbon‐based microbial‐fuel‐cell electrodes: from conductive supports to active catalysts

S Li, C Cheng, A Thomas - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have attracted considerable interest due to their potential in
renewable electrical power generation using the broad diversity of biomass and organic …

Application of advanced anodes in microbial fuel cells for power generation: A review

T Cai, L Meng, G Chen, Y Xi, N Jiang, J Song, S Zheng… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) the most extensively described bioelectrochemical systems
(BES), have been made remarkable progress in the past few decades. Although the energy …

Nanocomposites of graphene and graphene oxides: synthesis, molecular functionalization and application in electrochemical sensors and biosensors. A review

J Xu, Y Wang, S Hu - Microchimica Acta, 2017 - Springer
Functionalized nanocomposites based on various type of graphene nanomaterials including
graphene, graphene oxides (GOs), and doped graphene (oxides) are widely used as …