Use of a coculture to enable current production by Geobacter sulfurreducens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3484-3487

  Qu, Youpeng ^a   Feng, Yujie ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Logan, Bruce E ^a,c  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCULTURE; CURRENT PRODUCTION; ELECTRICAL POWER; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; MIXED CULTURES; PURE CULTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; ELECTRICAL POWER; FUEL CELL; OXYGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACTER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 84861122370     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00073-12     Document Type: Article

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