Electron transfer between microorganisms and an electrode—even across long distances—
enables the former to live by coupling to an electronic circuit. Such a system integrates …

Waste biomass is a cheap and relatively abundant source of electrons for microbes capable
of producing electrical current outside the cell. Rapidly developing microbial electrochemical …

Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is a potentially attractive green technology to tackle the
global warming and energy crisis, which employs electrochemically active bacteria to …

Microbial electrocatalysis relies on microorganisms as catalysts for reactions occurring at
electrodes. Microbial fuel cells and microbial electrolysis cells are well known in this context; …

Biogas upgrading technologies have received widespread attention recently and are
researched extensively. Microbial biogas upgrading (biomethanation) relies on the microbial …

Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) are an electricity-mediated microbial bioelectrochemical
technology, which is originally developed for high-efficiency biological hydrogen production …

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) reduction to multi-carbon compounds at the cathode using
chemolithoautotrophs is an emerging application of microbial electrosynthesis (MES). In this …

New sustainable methods are needed to produce renewable energy carriers that can be
stored and used for transportation, heating, or chemical production. Here we demonstrate …

Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are unique systems capable of converting the chemical
energy of organic waste including low-strength wastewaters and lignocellulosic biomass …

The use of electrochemically active bacteria to break down organic matter, combined with
the addition of a small voltage (> 0.2 V in practice) in specially designed microbial …