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Surface Renewal: An Advanced Micrometeorological Method for Measuring and Processing Field-Scale Energy Flux Density Data
Published on: December 12, 2013
Reaching full potential: bioelectrochemical systems for storing renewable energy in chemical bonds
Lin Su1, Caroline M Ajo-Franklin2
1State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210018, China; Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Abstract:
The growing abundance of wind and solar power has driven interest in utilizing this renewable energy to make chemicals. One of the most efficient and sophisticated frameworks to solar-to-chemical conversion is bioelectrochemical systems that electrochemically couple inorganic catalysts and microorganisms. In particular, microbial electrosynthesis systems and biohybrid systems have used CO2 and electricity or light, respectively, to synthesize organic acids at energy efficiencies that exceed natural photosynthesis. In parallel, new methods have been recently developed to improve the poor mechanistic understanding of these and other bioelectrochemical systems. Deeper knowledge of these underlying molecular processes and creation of new architectures for bioelectrochemical systems are needed to make these promising technologies scale to a commercially relevant level.
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