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 …

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 …

Solar-powered multi-organism symbiont mimic system for beyond natural synthesis of polypeptides from CO2 and N2

W Yu, Y Zeng, Z Wang, S Xia, Z Yang, W Chen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Developing artificial symbionts beyond natural synthesis limitations would bring
revolutionary contributions to agriculture, medicine, environment, etc. Here, we initiated a …

Flexible bioelectronic device fabricated by conductive polymer–based living material

Z Wang, H Bai, W Yu, Z Gao, W Chen, Z Yang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Living materials are worked as an inside collaborative system that could naturally respond to
changing environmental conditions. The regulation of bioelectronic processes in living …

Solution‐deposited and Patternable conductive polymer thin‐film electrodes for microbial bioelectronics

CP Tseng, F Liu, X Zhang, PC Huang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial bioelectronic devices integrate naturally occurring or synthetically engineered
electroactive microbes with microelectronics. These devices have a broad range of potential …

Water-soluble conjugated polymers for bioelectronic systems

Z Wang, H Lin, M Zhang, W Yu, C Zhu, P Wang… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioelectronics is an interdisciplinary field of research that aims to establish a synergy
between electronics and biology. Contributing to a deeper understanding of bioelectronic …

Electrogenic bacteria promise new opportunities for powering, sensing, and synthesizing

S Choi - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Considerable research efforts into the promises of electrogenic bacteria and the commercial
opportunities they present are attempting to identify potential feasible applications …

Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Underexplored Materials for Pseudocapacitive Energy Storage

G Quek, B Roehrich, Y Su, L Sepunaru… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) are characterized by an electronically delocalized
backbone bearing ionic functionalities. These features lead to properties relevant for use in …

A red-light-powered silicon nanowire biophotochemical diode for simultaneous CO2 reduction and glycerol valorization

J Kim, JA Lin, J Kim, I Roh, S Lee, P Yang - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
A bias-free photochemical diode, in which a p-type photocathode is connected to an n-type
photoanode to harness light for driving photoelectrochemical reduction and oxidation pairs …