Studying bacteria-nanostructure interactions is crucial to gaining controllable interfacing of biotic and abiotic components in advanced biotechnologies. For bioelectrochemical systems, tunable cell-electrode architectures offer a path toward improving performance and discovering emergent properties. As such, Sporomusa ovata cells cultured on vertical silicon nanowire arrays formed filamentous ...

This work proves for the first time the bioelectrochemical production of butyrate from CO2 as a sole carbon source. The highest concentration of butyrate achieved was 20.2 mMC, with a maximum butyrate production rate of 1.82 mMC d(-1). The electrochemical characterisation demonstrated that the CO2 reduction to butyrate was hydrogen driven. Production of ethanol and butanol was also observed ope...

A broad review of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic approaches toward CO2 reduction using organic, organometallic, and bioorganic systems is provided. Electrochemical, bioelectrochemical and photoelectrochemical approaches are discussed in terms of their faradaic efficiencies, overpotentials and reaction mechanisms. Organometallic complexes as well as semiconductors and their homogeneous ...

This paper report a novel approach for bioimaging with two different micro/nanoelectrode systems; i. e., scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and individually addressable microelectrode array. Hybrid SECM systems with shear-force or ion-conductance feedback distance control were applied to high resolution and simultaneous imaging of topography and electrochemical responses of enzymes and ...

Many electrochemical/bioelectrochemical systems are intrinsically nonstationary and are affected by time-dependent phenomena. The requirement of stationarity in the classical version of impedance spectroscopy appears to be in conflict with the essential properties of the object, therefore a post-experimental mathematical/analytical procedure is necessary for the reconstruction of the 'true' imp...

Although the past 20 years have seen significant advances in tailoring materials for improving performance of bioelectrochemical systems, recently, there been efforts utilizing synthetic biology toolkit engineering organisms systems. This review discusses use to engineer non-native properties into systems increasing diversity fuel utilization energy applications, allowing novel electrosynthetic...

Hydrothermal chimneys are striking, characteristic features of marine hydrothermal vents. These chimneys are dynamic environments occupied by a diversity of microbes whose distribution is typically concordant with mineralogy and temperature. Recent studies indicate that these chimney assemblages are conductive and present the possibility that microbial extracellular electron transfer may occur ...