Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Carbon dots-fed Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 for bioelectricity enhancement

  • Chenhui Yang,
  • Hüsnü Aslan,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Shoujun Zhu,
  • Yong Xiao,
  • Lixiang Chen,
  • Nasar Khan,
  • Thomas Boesen,
  • Yuanlin Wang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Ye Sun,
  • Yujie Feng,
  • Flemming Besenbacher,
  • Feng Zhao,
  • Miao Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14866-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Bacterial fuel cells have generated attention with the prospect of green energy production; current research is focused on optimising the system to improve efficiency. Here, the authors report on the feeding of carbon dots to S. oneidensis MR-1 to enhance metabolic activity and bioelectric generation.