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  • Focus on sustainable chemical production and carbon capture technologies.

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  • Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) offers a promising route for CO2 valorization.
  • Current challenges include optimizing biocatalyst performance and reactor design.

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  • To highlight future research directions in microbial electrosynthesis.
  • To identify key areas for technological advancement and overcome performance limitations.

Main Methods:

  • Leveraging knowledge from traditional and adjacent electrochemical fields.
  • Engineering efficient reactors for microbial biocatalysts.

Main Results:

  • Anticipated advancements in reactor engineering for improved biocatalyst performance.
  • Development of strategies to overcome limiting factors in MES.

Conclusions:

  • Continued research into robust and adaptable biocatalysts is crucial.
  • Scaling up MES reactors for industrial applications requires addressing extreme conditions like high temperature, salinity, and pressure.