Use of a Coculture To Enable Current Production by Geobacter sulfurreducens

Y. Qu, Y. Feng, X. Wang, B. E. Logan

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Abstract

Microbial fuel cells often produce more electrical power with mixed cultures than with pure cultures. Here, we show that a coculture of a nonexoelectrogen (Escherichia coli) and Geobacter sulfurreducens improved system performance relative to that of a pure culture of the exoelectrogen due to the consumption of oxygen leaking into the reactor.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3484-3487
Number of pages4
JournalApplied and Environmental Microbiology
Volume78
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 17 2012
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUS-I1-003-13
Acknowledgements: This research was supported by the State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology (grant 2009TS03), the National Innovation Team supported by the National Science Foundation of China (grant no. 50821002), the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (grant 51125033), and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (award KUS-I1-003-13).
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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