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Soft Biomimetic Underwater Vehicles: A Review of Actuation Mechanisms, Structure Designs and Underwater Applications [PDF]

Micromachines
The growing demand for marine resource development and in-depth exploration of the marine environment has positioned soft biomimetic underwater vehicles (SBUVs) as a research hotspot in the fields of underwater equipment and soft robotics.
Xuejing Liu, Jing Li, Yu Xing, Zhouqiang Zhang, Yong Cao, Yonghui Cao, Bo Li   +6 more
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Single-cell phenotyping of extracellular electron transfer via microdroplet encapsulation [PDF]

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Electroactive organisms contribute to metal cycling, pollutant removal, and other redox-driven environmental processes via extracellular electron transfer (EET).
Gina Partipilo, Emily K. Bowman, Emma J. Palmer, Yang Gao, Rodney S. Ridley, Hal S. Alper, Benjamin K. Keitz   +6 more
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Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Extracellular Electron Transfer: The Importance of Multiheme Cytochromes

Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, 2022
Extracellular electron transfer is a key metabolic process of many organisms that enables them to exchange electrons with extracellular electron donors/acceptors.
Catarina M. Paquete, Leonor Morgado, Carlos A. Salgueiro, Ricardo O. Louro   +3 more
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Crossing the Wall: Characterization of the Multiheme Cytochromes Involved in the Extracellular Electron Transfer Pathway of Thermincola ferriacetica

Microorganisms, 2021
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) are emerging as a suite of versatile sustainable technologies to produce electricity and added-value compounds from renewable and carbon-neutral sources using electroactive organisms.
Marisa M. Faustino, Bruno M. Fonseca, Nazua L. Costa, Diana Lousa, Ricardo O. Louro, Catarina M. Paquete   +5 more
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The Use of Electroactive Halophilic Bacteria for Improvements and Advancements in Environmental High Saline Biosensing

Biosensors, 2021
Halophilic bacteria are remarkable organisms that have evolved strategies to survive in high saline concentrations. These bacteria offer many advances for microbial-based biotechnologies and are commonly used for industrial processes such as compatible ...
Erin M. Gaffney, Olja Simoska, Shelley D. Minteer   +2 more
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Self-powered assemblies for tissue engineering applications

Supramolecular Materials, 2023
Bioelectric phenomena play important roles in living organisms and are essential for regulating cellular and tissue behavior. Electroactive assemblies can facilitate tissue repair and/or regulate neural activity by simulating the tissue microenvironment,
Yi Zhang, Qi An
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e-Cuvettes parallelize electrochemical and photometric measurements in cuvettes and facilitate applications in bio-electrochemistry

Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, 2023
Parallelized and automated screening systems are widely used in process development and optimization in bioelectrochemical applications. This includes the rapid testing and measuring of electrochemical potentials, electrical current densities, mediators,
André Gemünde, Jonas Gail, Jürgen Janek, Dirk Holtmann   +3 more
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Exploring the Effects of bolA in Biofilm Formation and Current Generation by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) have emerged in recent years as a promising alternative green source of energy, with microbes consuming organic matter to produce energy or valuable byproducts.
Ana V. Silva, Miriam Edel, Johannes Gescher, Johannes Gescher, Catarina M. Paquete   +4 more
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Electroactivity across the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020
The growing interest on sustainable biotechnological processes for the production of energy and industrial relevant organic compounds have increased the discovery of electroactive organisms (i.e.
Catarina M. Paquete
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State of the art of soft robotic applications based on magneto-rheological materials [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020
Soft robotics is a new and exciting field of robotics which heavily relies on compliant materials. Soft robots attempt to copy the motion of living organisms and their adaptation mechanisms to the environment. New efforts in this field have paved way for
Gutenko Denys
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