Issue 38, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Low-voltage electrochemical CO2reduction by bacterial voltage-multiplier circuits†

Taketo Mogi,a   Takumi Ishii,a   Kazuhito Hashimoto*ab  and  Ryuhei Nakamura*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
E-mail: nakamura@light.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp;
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b ERATO/JST, HASHIMOTO Light Energy Conversion Project, Japan
E-mail: hashimoto@light.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp;
Fax: +81-3-5841-1142
Tel: +81-3-5841-7248

Abstract

Using the voltage-multiplying circuits of chemolitho-autotrophic Fe-oxidizing bacteria (Mariprofundus ferrooxydans), we describe an integrated bioelectrochemical system that affords simultaneous CO2 reduction and H2O oxidation at an external voltage of less than 1.24 V.

Graphical abstract: Low-voltage electrochemical CO2 reduction by bacterial voltage-multiplier circuits

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC37986D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Nov 2012
Accepted
18 Dec 2012
First published
19 Dec 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 3967-3969

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Low-voltage electrochemical CO2 reduction by bacterial voltage-multiplier circuits

T. Mogi, T. Ishii, K. Hashimoto and R. Nakamura, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 3967 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37986D

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