A kinetic perspective on extracellular electron transfer by anode-respiring bacteria

CI Torres, AK Marcus, HS Lee… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
In microbial fuel cells and electrolysis cells (MXCs), anode-respiring bacteria (ARB) oxidize
organic substrates to produce electrical current. In order to develop an electrical current …

Microbial fuel cells, a current review

AE Franks, KP Nevin - Energies, 2010 - mdpi.com
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are devices that can use bacterial metabolism to produce an
electrical current from a wide range organic substrates. Due to the promise of sustainable …

Biofilms, active substrata, and me

BE Rittmann - Water Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Having worked with biofilms since the 1970s, I know that they are ubiquitous in nature, of
great value in water technology, and scientifically fascinating. Biofilms are naturally able to …

Improved performance of CEA microbial fuel cells with increased reactor size

Y Fan, SK Han, H Liu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The performance of an over 10 times larger microbial fuel cell (MFC) with double cloth
electrode assemblies (CEAs) during 63 days of continuous operation demonstrates that the …

Kinetic experiments for evaluating the Nernst− Monod model for anode-respiring bacteria (ARB) in a biofilm anode

CI Torres, AK Marcus, P Parameswaran… - … science & technology, 2008 - ACS Publications
Anode-respiring bacteria (ARB) are able to transfer electrons from reduced substrates to a
solid electrode. Previously, we developed a biofilm model based on the Nernst− Monod …

Syntrophic interactions among anode respiring bacteria (ARB) and Non‐ARB in a biofilm anode: electron balances

P Parameswaran, CI Torres, HS Lee… - Biotechnology and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate that the coulombic efficiency (CE) of a microbial electrolytic cell (MEC)
fueled with a fermentable substrate, ethanol, depended on the interactions among anode …

Microtoming coupled to microarray analysis to evaluate the spatial metabolic status of Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms

AE Franks, KP Nevin, RH Glaven, DR Lovley - The ISME journal, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Further insight into the metabolic status of cells within anode biofilms is essential for
understanding the functioning of microbial fuel cells and developing strategies to optimize …

Identifying target processes for microbial electrosynthesis by elementary mode analysis

F Kracke, JO Krömer - BMC bioinformatics, 2014 - Springer
Background Microbial electrosynthesis and electro fermentation are techniques that aim to
optimize microbial production of chemicals and fuels by regulating the cellular redox …

Bioelectricity generation by a Gram-positive Corynebacterium sp. strain MFC03 under alkaline condition in microbial fuel cells

M Liu, Y Yuan, L Zhang, L Zhuang, S Zhou, J Ni - Bioresource technology, 2010 - Elsevier
This work studied an alkalophilic Gram-positive bacterium, Corynebacterium sp. strain
MFC03, for its ability to produce electricity in the absence of an exogenous mediator under …

Quorum sensing autoinducers enhance biofilm formation and power production in a hypersaline microbial fuel cell

O Monzon, Y Yang, Q Li, PJJ Alvarez - Biochemical engineering journal, 2016 - Elsevier
Intensive hydraulic fracturing of shale oil and gas reservoirs and other industrial activities
can produce large volumes of high-organic-strength and high-salinity wastewaters that are …