Rapid electron transfer by the carbon matrix in natural pyrogenic carbon

T Sun, BDA Levin, JJL Guzman, A Enders… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Surface functional groups constitute major electroactive components in pyrogenic carbon.
However, the electrochemical properties of pyrogenic carbon matrices and the kinetic …

Enhancing Extracellular Electron Transfer of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 through Coupling Improved Flavin Synthesis and Metal-Reducing Conduit for Pollutant …

D Min, L Cheng, F Zhang, XN Huang… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria (DMRB) are capable of extracellular electron transfer
(EET) to insoluble metal oxides, which are used as external electron acceptors by DMRB for …

Redox conduction in biofilms: From respiration to living electronics

LA Zacharoff, MY El-Naggar - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent studies of electrochemically active bacteria paint a mechanistic picture where
multistep hopping of electrons can be driven by redox gradients, allowing electron …

Increased electron-accepting and decreased electron-donating capacities of soil humic substances in response to increasing temperature

W Tan, B Xi, G Wang, J Jiang, X He… - Environmental …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The electron transfer capacities (ETCs) of soil humic substances (HSs) are linked to the type
and abundance of redox-active functional moieties in their structure. Natural temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative structure-potentio-spectroscopy of the Shewanella outer membrane multiheme cytochromes

MJ Edwards, AJ Gates, JN Butt, DJ Richardson… - Current Opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many species of bacteria can generate energy in the anoxic subsurface by directly coupling
intracellular oxidative reactions to the reduction of extracellular metal oxides. Coupling these …

Engineering Shewanella oneidensis enables xylose-fed microbial fuel cell

F Li, Y Li, L Sun, X Li, C Yin, X An, X Chen… - Biotechnology for …, 2017 - Springer
Background The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a green and sustainable technology for
electricity energy harvest from biomass, in which exoelectrogens use metabolism and …

Proton transport in the outer‐membrane flavocytochrome complex limits the rate of extracellular electron transport

A Okamoto, Y Tokunou, S Kalathil… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The microbial transfer of electrons to extracellularly located solid compounds, termed
extracellular electron transport (EET), is critical for microbial electrode catalysis. Although …

Cysteine linkages accelerate electron flow through tetra-heme protein STC

X Jiang, Z Futera, ME Ali, F Gajdos… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Multi-heme proteins have attracted much attention recently due to their prominent role in
mediating extracellular electron transport (ET), but one of their key fundamental properties …

[HTML][HTML] A ferrocene-based conjugated oligoelectrolyte catalyzes bacterial electrode respiration

ND Kirchhofer, ZD Rengert, FW Dahlquist, TQ Nguyen… - Chem, 2017 - cell.com
For emerging bioelectronic technologies, charge-transfer processes remain rate limited by
energy-level mismatching and poor contacts at biotic-abiotic interfaces. Direct chemical …

The molecular basis for binding of an electron transfer protein to a metal oxide surface

T Fukushima, S Gupta, B Rad, JA Cornejo… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Achieving fast electron transfer between a material and protein is a long-standing challenge
confronting applications in bioelectronics, bioelectrocatalysis, and optobioelectronics …