Amperometric biosensors: Harnessing photosynthetic reaction centers for herbicide detection

N Modak, VM Friebe - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Amperometric biosensing, exemplified by the popular glucose biosensor, is a well-
established method for transducing analyte-receptor binding events into accessible …

Bio-sensitized solar cells built from renewable carbon sources

CC Villarreal, S Monge, D Aguilar, A Tames… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent advances in materials science lead to the emergence of novel materials to address
current energy and environmental challenges, such as energy-intensive manufacturing …

Spin coating photoactive photosystem I–PEDOT: PSS composite films

MA Nabhan, CA Silvera Batista, DE Cliffel… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photosystem I (PSI), a naturally abundant multi-subunit protein complex known for its ability
to harvest solar energy and transform it into chemical energy in photosynthesis, is mixed …

Bio-inorganic hybrid structures for direct electron transfer to photosystem I in photobioelectrodes

S Morlock, SK Subramanian, A Zouni… - Biosensors and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Synthetic materials can be combined with biological components in many ways. One
example that provides scientists with multiple challenges is a photobioelectrode that …

Layer-by-layer assembly of Photosystem I and PEDOT: PSS biohybrid films for photocurrent generation

KD Wolfe, A Gargye, F Mwambutsa, L Than, DE Cliffel… - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
The design of electrode interfaces to achieve efficient electron transfer to biomolecules is
important in many bioelectrochemical processes. Within the field of biohybrid solar energy …

Modular configurations of living biomaterials incorporating nano-based artificial mediators and synthetic biology to improve bioelectrocatalytic performance: A review

Z Chen, J Zhang, Q Lyu, H Wang, X Ji, Z Yan… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, the industrial application of bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) that are incubated
with natural electrochemically active microbes (EABs) is limited due to inefficient …

Scalable three-dimensional photobioelectrodes made of reduced graphene oxide combined with photosystem I

S Morlock, SK Subramanian, A Zouni… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photobioelectrodes represent one of the examples where artificial materials are combined
with biological entities to undertake semi-artificial photosynthesis. Here, an approach is …

Graphene oxide decorated with gold enables efficient biophotovolatic cells incorporating photosystem I

N Torabi, S Rousseva, Q Chen, A Ashrafi… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes the use of reduced graphene oxide decorated with gold nanoparticles
as an efficient electron transfer layer for solid-state biophotovoltic cells containing …

Closing the Gap for Electronic Short‐Circuiting: Photosystem I Mixed Monolayers Enable Improved Anisotropic Electron Flow in Biophotovoltaic Devices

P Wang, A Frank, F Zhao, J Szczesny… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Well‐defined assemblies of photosynthetic protein complexes are required for an optimal
performance of semi‐artificial energy conversion devices, capable of providing …

Mediator-microorganism interaction in microbial solar cell: a fluo-electrochemical insight

L Beauzamy, J Delacotte, B Bailleul, K Tanaka… - Analytical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Microbial solar cells that mainly rely on the use of photosynthesic organisms are a promising
alternative to photovoltaics for solar electricity production. In that way, we propose a new …