Microbial nanowires for sustainable electronics

MJ Guberman-Pfeffer, NM Dorval Courchesne… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial protein nanowires are emerging as an alternative to abiotic nanowires for
electronics applications. Microbial nanowires are sustainably produced, robust, non-toxic …

Living electronics: A catalogue of engineered living electronic components

JT Atkinson, MS Chavez, CM Niman… - Microbial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biology leverages a range of electrical phenomena to extract and store energy, control
molecular reactions and enable multicellular communication. Microbes, in particular, have …

Current progress of interfacing organic semiconducting materials with bacteria

SR McCuskey, J Chatsirisupachai, E Zeglio… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microbial bioelectronics require interfacing microorganisms with electrodes. The resulting
abiotic/biotic platforms provide the basis of a range of technologies, including energy …

Cable bacteria skeletons as catalytically active electrodes

L Digel, M Mierzwa, R Bonné, SE Zieger… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cable bacteria are multicellular, filamentous bacteria that use internal conductive fibers to
transfer electrons over centimeter distances from donors within anoxic sediment layers to …

FexO/FeNC modified activated carbon packing media for biological slow filtration to enhance the removal of dissolved organic matter in reused water

H Yang, L Xu, Y Li, H Liu, X Wu, P Zhou… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The biological slow filtration reactor (BSFR) process has been found to be moderately
effective for the removal of refractory dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the treatment of …

[HTML][HTML] Electrogenic sulfur oxidation mediated by cable bacteria and its ecological effects

Z Wang, L Digel, Y Yuan, H Lu, Y Yang, C Vogt… - Environmental Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
At the sediment-water interfaces, filamentous cable bacteria transport electrons from sulfide
oxidation along their filaments towards oxygen or nitrate as electron acceptors. These …

Temperature-Dependent Characterization of Long-Range Conduction in Conductive Protein Fibers of Cable Bacteria

JR van der Veen, S Hidalgo Martinez, A Wieland… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Multicellular cable bacteria display an exceptional form of biological conduction, channeling
electric currents across centimeter distances through a regular network of protein fibers …

Long-distance electron transport in multicellular freshwater cable bacteria

T Yang, MS Chavez, CM Niman, S Xu, MY El-Naggar - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Filamentous multicellular cable bacteria perform centimeter-scale electron transport in a
process that couples oxidation of an electron donor (sulfide) in deeper sediment to the …

Quantum-assisted electron transport in microbial protein wires across macroscopic distances

JR van der Veen, SH Martinez, A Wieland… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multicellular cable bacteria display an exceptional form of biological conduction, channeling
electrical currents across centimeter distances through a regular network of protein fibers …

Indications for a genetic basis for big bacteria and description of the giant cable bacterium Candidatus Electrothrix gigas sp. nov.

JS Geelhoed, CA Thorup, JJ Bjerg… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial cells can vary greatly in size, from a few hundred nanometers to hundreds of
micrometers in diameter. Filamentous cable bacteria also display substantial size …