Issue 6, 2011
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Energy & Environmental Science

Opportunities behind the unusual ability of geobacter sulfurreducens for exocellular respiration and electricity production†

Abraham Esteve-Núñez,*a   Juan Pablo Busalmen,*b   Antonio Berná,c   Cristina Gutiérrez-Garrána  and  Juan Miguel Feliuc  

* Corresponding authors

a Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, and IMDEA Agua, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
E-mail: abraham.esteve@uah.es

b Laboratorio de Bioelectroquímica, INTEMA(CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Juan B. Justo 4302, Mar del Plata, Argentina
E-mail: jbusalme@fi.mdp.edu.ar

c Instituto de Electroquímica, Universidad de Alicante, Apartado de Correos 99, Alicante, Spain
E-mail: juan.feliu@ua.es

Abstract

The possibility to improve the connection of cells to the electrode is significant for microbial fuel cell technology. In this communication we demonstrate that an improved connection can be made by controlling the physiological state of electricity-harvesting bacteria as Geobacter sulfurreducens.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1EE01067K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Jan 2011
Accepted
15 Apr 2011
First published
11 May 2011

Energy Environ. Sci., 2011,4, 2066-2069

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Opportunities behind the unusual ability of geobacter sulfurreducens for exocellular respiration and electricity production

A. Esteve-Núñez, J. P. Busalmen, A. Berná, C. Gutiérrez-Garrán and J. M. Feliu, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 2066 DOI: 10.1039/C1EE01067K

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