Screening for Hyperthermophilic Electrotrophs for the Microbial Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 Microbial electrosynthesis has recently emerged as a promising technology for the sustainable production of organic acids, bioplastics, or biofuels from electricity and CO2.
Rabja Maria Popall +4 more
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Simplifying Microbial Electrosynthesis Reactor Design [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Microbial electrosynthesis, an artificial form of photosynthesis, can efficiently convert carbon dioxide into organic commodities; however, this process has only previously been demonstrated in reactors that have features likely to be a barrier to scale ...
Cloelle G.S. Giddings +4 more
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A meta-analysis of acetogenic and methanogenic microbiomes in microbial electrosynthesis [PDF]
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2022 A meta-analysis approach was used, to study the microbiomes of biofilms and planktonic communities underpinning microbial electrosynthesis (MES) cells. High-throughput DNA sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons has been increasingly applied to understand ...
Simon Mills +6 more
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H2 mediated mixed culture microbial electrosynthesis for high titer acetate production from CO2 [PDF]
Environmental Science and EcotechnologyMicrobial electrosynthesis (MES) converts CO2 into value-added products such as volatile fatty acids (VFAs) with minimal energy use, but low production titer has limited scale-up and commercialization. Mediated electron transfer via H2 on the MES cathode
Yanhong Bian +3 more
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Efficient Hydrogen Delivery for Microbial Electrosynthesis via 3D-Printed Cathodes [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 The efficient delivery of electrochemically in situ produced H2 can be a key advantage of microbial electrosynthesis over traditional gas fermentation.
Frauke Kracke +7 more
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Microbial Electrosynthesis Reshapes Energy Metabolism and Physiology in Clostridium ljungdahlii. [PDF]
Microb BiotechnolMicrobial electrosynthesis drives Clostridium ljungdahlii into a distinct stress‐associated physiological state, different from gas fermentation. Comparative multi‐omics and electron microscopy reveal physiological constraints that help explain the poor performance of MES.
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Microbial electrosynthesis of acetate from CO2 under hypersaline conditions [PDF]
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 2023 Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) enables the bioproduction of multicarbon compounds from CO2 using electricity as the driver. Although high salinity can improve the energetic performance of bioelectrochemical systems, acetogenic processes under elevated ...
Xiaoting Zhang +4 more
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Scaling-up of microbial electrosynthesis with multiple electrodes for in situ production of hydrogen peroxide [PDF]
iScience, 2021 Summary: Microbial electrosynthesis system (MES) has recently been shown to be a promising alternative way for realizing in situ and energy-saving synthesis of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).
Rusen Zou +6 more
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A General Model for Biofilm-Driven Microbial Electrosynthesis of Carboxylates From CO2 [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Up to now, computational modeling of microbial electrosynthesis (MES) has been underexplored, but is necessary to achieve breakthrough understanding of the process-limiting steps. Here, a general framework for modeling microbial kinetics in a MES reactor
Oriol Cabau-Peinado +2 more
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The overlooked yet critical role of catholyte composition in microbial electrosynthesis [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe circular economy should include CO2 valorization, which could be achieved via microbial electrosynthesis (MES). In MES, the catholyte supplies all nutrients, yet its composition has been adopted from other biotechnologies, overlooking specific needs ...
Dimitri van der Lee +4 more
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