Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Live cyanobacteria produce photocurrent and hydrogen using both the respiratory and photosynthetic systems

  • Gadiel Saper,
  • Dan Kallmann,
  • Felipe Conzuelo,
  • Fangyuan Zhao,
  • Tünde N. Tóth,
  • Varda Liveanu,
  • Sagit Meir,
  • Jedrzej Szymanski,
  • Asaph Aharoni,
  • Wolfgang Schuhmann,
  • Avner Rothschild,
  • Gadi Schuster,
  • Noam Adir

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04613-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Biologically ### produced electrical currents and hydrogen are new energy sources. Here, the authors find that low presser microfluidizer treatment produced cyanobacterium that can utilize electrons from respiratory and photosynthesis to promote current and hydrogen generation, without the addition of exogenous electron mediators.