Microbial electrosynthesis: feeding microbes electricity to convert carbon dioxide and water to multicarbon extracellular organic compounds

KP Nevin, TL Woodard, AE Franks, ZM Summers… - MBio, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
The possibility of providing the acetogenic microorganism Sporomusa ovata with electrons
delivered directly to the cells with a graphite electrode for the reduction of carbon dioxide to …

Improved cathode materials for microbial electrosynthesis

T Zhang, H Nie, TS Bain, H Lu, M Cui… - Energy & …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial electrosynthesis is a promising strategy for the microbial conversion of carbon
dioxide to transportation fuels and other organic commodities, but optimization of this …

Electrobiocommodities: powering microbial production of fuels and commodity chemicals from carbon dioxide with electricity

DR Lovley, KP Nevin - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2013 - Elsevier
Electricity can be an energy source for microbially catalyzed production of fuels and other
organic commodities from carbon dioxide. These electrobiocommodities (E-BCs) can be …

Sulfide-driven microbial electrosynthesis

Y Gong, A Ebrahim, AM Feist, M Embree… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Microbial electrosynthesis, the conversion of carbon dioxide to organic molecules using
electricity, has recently been demonstrated for acetogenic microorganisms, such as …

Powering microbes with electricity: direct electron transfer from electrodes to microbes

DR Lovley - Environmental microbiology reports, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of electrotrophs, microorganisms that can directly accept electrons from
electrodes for the reduction of terminal electron acceptors, has spurred the investigation of a …

Electrosynthesis of organic compounds from carbon dioxide is catalyzed by a diversity of acetogenic microorganisms

KP Nevin, SA Hensley, AE Franks… - Applied and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial electrosynthesis, a process in which microorganisms use electrons derived from
electrodes to reduce carbon dioxide to multicarbon, extracellular organic compounds, is a …

Simplifying microbial electrosynthesis reactor design

CGS Giddings, KP Nevin, T Woodward… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Microbial electrosynthesis, an artificial form of photosynthesis, can efficiently convert carbon
dioxide into organic commodities; however, this process has only previously been …

Light energy to bioelectricity: photosynthetic microbial fuel cells

M Rosenbaum, Z He, LT Angenent - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2010 - Elsevier
Here, we reviewed five different approaches that integrate photosynthesis with microbial fuel
cells (MFCs)—photoMFCs. Until now, no conclusive report has been published that …

Microbial electrosynthesis—revisiting the electrical route for microbial production

K Rabaey, RA Rozendal - Nature reviews microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
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; …

Electrifying microbes for the production of chemicals

PL Tremblay, T Zhang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Powering microbes with electrical energy to produce valuable chemicals such as biofuels
has recently gained traction as a biosustainable strategy to reduce our dependence on oil …