Fundamentals, applications, and future directions of bioelectrocatalysis

H Chen, O Simoska, K Lim, M Grattieri, M Yuan… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bioelectrocatalysis is an interdisciplinary research field combining biocatalysis and
electrocatalysis via the utilization of materials derived from biological systems as catalysts to …

Advances towards understanding and engineering direct interspecies electron transfer in anaerobic digestion

S Barua, BR Dhar - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) is a recently discovered microbial syntrophy
where cell-to-cell electron transfer occurs between syntrophic microbial species. DIET …

Structure of Geobacter cytochrome OmcZ identifies mechanism of nanowire assembly and conductivity

Y Gu, MJ Guberman-Pfeffer, V Srikanth, C Shen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
OmcZ nanowires produced by Geobacter species have high electron conductivity (> 30 S
cm− 1). Of 111 cytochromes present in G. sulfurreducens, OmcZ is the only known nanowire …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of microbial nanowires reveals stacked hemes that transport electrons over micrometers

F Wang, Y Gu, JP O'Brien, MY Sophia, SE Yalcin… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary Long-range (> 10 μm) transport of electrons along networks of Geobacter
sulfurreducens protein filaments, known as microbial nanowires, has been invoked to …

Multi-heme cytochrome-mediated extracellular electron transfer by the anaerobic methanotroph 'Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens'

X Zhang, GH Joyce, AO Leu, J Zhao, H Rabiee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) carry out anaerobic oxidation of methane, thus
playing a crucial role in the methane cycle. Previous genomic evidence indicates that multi …

Accelerated Microbial Corrosion by Magnetite and Electrically Conductive Pili through Direct Fe0‐to‐Microbe Electron Transfer

Y Jin, E Zhou, T Ueki, D Zhang, Y Fan, D Xu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrobiocorrosion, the process in which microbes extract electrons from metallic iron (Fe0)
through direct Fe0‐microbe electrical connections, is thought to contribute to the costly …

Electric field stimulates production of highly conductive microbial OmcZ nanowires

SE Yalcin, JP O'Brien, Y Gu, K Reiss, SM Yi… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Multifunctional living materials are attractive due to their powerful ability to self-repair and
replicate. However, most natural materials lack electronic functionality. Here we show that …

Mechanisms, performance, and the impact on microbial structure of direct interspecies electron transfer for enhancing anaerobic digestion-A review

L Feng, S He, Z Gao, W Zhao, J Jiang, Q Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) has been received tremendous attention,
recently, due to the advantages of accelerating methane production via organics reduction …

Exoelectrogens: recent advances in molecular drivers involved in extracellular electron transfer and strategies used to improve it for microbial fuel cell applications

R Kumar, L Singh, AW Zularisam - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of exoelectrogens in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) has given a wide berth to the
addition of artificial electron shuttles/conduits as they have the molecular machinery to …

Role and potential of direct interspecies electron transfer in anaerobic digestion

G Baek, J Kim, J Kim, C Lee - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an effective biological treatment for stabilizing organic
compounds in waste/wastewater and in simultaneously producing biogas. However, it is …