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Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems
Microbial electrochemical systems exploit the metabolism of microorganisms to generate electrical energy or a useful product. In the past couple of decades, the application of microbial electrochemical systems has increased from the use of wastewaters to produce electricity to a versatile technology...
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2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26474966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv044 |
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author | Dopson, Mark Ni, Gaofeng Sleutels, Tom HJA |
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description | Microbial electrochemical systems exploit the metabolism of microorganisms to generate electrical energy or a useful product. In the past couple of decades, the application of microbial electrochemical systems has increased from the use of wastewaters to produce electricity to a versatile technology that can use numerous sources for the extraction of electrons on the one hand, while on the other hand these electrons can be used to serve an ever increasing number of functions. Extremophilic microorganisms grow in environments that are hostile to most forms of life and their utilization in microbial electrochemical systems has opened new possibilities to oxidize substrates in the anode and produce novel products in the cathode. For example, extremophiles can be used to oxidize sulfur compounds in acidic pH to remediate wastewaters, generate electrical energy from marine sediment microbial fuel cells at low temperatures, desalinate wastewaters and act as biosensors of low amounts of organic carbon. In this review, we will discuss the recent advances that have been made in using microbial catalysts under extreme conditions and show possible new routes that extremophilic microorganisms open for microbial electrochemical systems. |
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spelling | pubmed-48028242016-03-23 Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems Dopson, Mark Ni, Gaofeng Sleutels, Tom HJA FEMS Microbiol Rev Review Article Microbial electrochemical systems exploit the metabolism of microorganisms to generate electrical energy or a useful product. In the past couple of decades, the application of microbial electrochemical systems has increased from the use of wastewaters to produce electricity to a versatile technology that can use numerous sources for the extraction of electrons on the one hand, while on the other hand these electrons can be used to serve an ever increasing number of functions. Extremophilic microorganisms grow in environments that are hostile to most forms of life and their utilization in microbial electrochemical systems has opened new possibilities to oxidize substrates in the anode and produce novel products in the cathode. For example, extremophiles can be used to oxidize sulfur compounds in acidic pH to remediate wastewaters, generate electrical energy from marine sediment microbial fuel cells at low temperatures, desalinate wastewaters and act as biosensors of low amounts of organic carbon. In this review, we will discuss the recent advances that have been made in using microbial catalysts under extreme conditions and show possible new routes that extremophilic microorganisms open for microbial electrochemical systems. Oxford University Press 2015-10-15 2016-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4802824/ /pubmed/26474966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv044 Text en © FEMS 2015. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Review Article Dopson, Mark Ni, Gaofeng Sleutels, Tom HJA Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems |
title | Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems |
title_full | Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems |
title_fullStr | Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems |
title_full_unstemmed | Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems |
title_short | Possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems |
title_sort | possibilities for extremophilic microorganisms in microbial electrochemical systems |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26474966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv044 |
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