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Waste Water Derived Electroactive Microbial Biofilms: Growth, Maintenance, and Basic Characterization
Published on: December 29, 2013
Electrode functional microorganisms in bioelectrochemical systems and its regulation: A review
Juping You1, Lei Ye2, Shihan Zhang3
1Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Pullution control for Port-Petrochemical Industry, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China; Key Laboratory of Pollution Exposure and Health Intervention of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou 312028, China.
Abstract:
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) as environmental remediation biotechnologies have boomed in the last two decades. Although BESs combined technologies with electro-chemistry, -biology, and -physics, microorganisms and biofilms remain at their core. In this review, various functional microorganisms in BESs for CO2 reduction, dehalogenation, nitrate, phosphate, and sulfate reduction, metal removal, and volatile organic compound oxidation are summarized and compared in detail. Moreover, interrelationship regulation approaches for functional microorganisms and methods for electroactive biofilm development, such as targeted electrode surface modification, chemical treatment, physical revealing, biological optimization, and genetic programming are pointed out. This review provides promising guidance and suggestions for the selection of microbial inoculants and provides an analysis of the role of individual microorganisms in mixed microbial communities and its metabolisms.
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