Microbial extracellular electron transfer and strategies for engineering electroactive microorganisms

J Zhao, F Li, Y Cao, X Zhang, T Chen, H Song… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms (EAMs) are ubiquitous in nature and have attracted
considerable attention as they can be used for energy recovery and environmental …

Resource recovery from wastewater by biological technologies: opportunities, challenges, and prospects

D Puyol, DJ Batstone, T Hülsen, S Astals… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Limits in resource availability are driving a change in current societal production systems,
changing the focus from residues treatment, such as wastewater treatment, toward resource …

Microbial electron transport and energy conservation–the foundation for optimizing bioelectrochemical systems

F Kracke, I Vassilev, JO Krömer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Microbial electrochemical techniques describe a variety of emerging technologies that use
electrode–bacteria interactions for biotechnology applications including the production of …

Making quantitative sense of electromicrobial production

NJ Claassens, CAR Cotton, D Kopljar, A Bar-Even - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
The integration of electrochemical and microbial processes offers a unique opportunity to
displace fossil carbon with CO2 and renewable energy as the primary feedstocks for carbon …

Biocatalytic reduction reactions from a chemist's perspective

F Hollmann, DJ Opperman… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Reductions play a key role in organic synthesis, producing chiral products with new
functionalities. Enzymes can catalyse such reactions with exquisite stereo‐, regio‐and …

High acetic acid production rate obtained by microbial electrosynthesis from carbon dioxide

L Jourdin, T Grieger, J Monetti, V Flexer… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
High product specificity and production rate are regarded as key success parameters for
large-scale applicability of a (bio) chemical reaction technology. Here, we report a significant …

Electro-fermentation: how to drive fermentation using electrochemical systems

R Moscoviz, J Toledo-Alarcón, E Trably… - Trends in biotechnology, 2016 - cell.com
Electro-fermentation (EF) is a novel process that consists of electrochemically controlling
microbial fermentative metabolism with electrodes. The electrodes can act as either electron …

Biotransformation of carbon dioxide in bioelectrochemical systems: State of the art and future prospects

S Bajracharya, S Srikanth, G Mohanakrishna… - Journal of Power …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO 2) utilization/recycling for the production of chemicals and
gaseous/liquid energy-carriers is a way to moderate the rising CO 2 in the atmosphere. One …

Biophotovoltaics: green power generation from sunlight and water

J Tschörtner, B Lai, JO Krömer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biophotovoltaics is a relatively new discipline in microbial fuel cell research. The basic idea
is the conversion of light energy into electrical energy using photosynthetic microorganisms …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial electro-fermentation for synthesis of chemicals and biofuels driven by bi-directional extracellular electron transfer

Z Gong, H Yu, J Zhang, F Li, H Song - Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Electroactive bacteria could perform bi-directional extracellular electron transfer (EET) to
exchange electrons and energy with extracellular environments, thus playing a central role …