Communications Materials (Jun 2021)

Adaptive bidirectional extracellular electron transfer during accelerated microbiologically influenced corrosion of stainless steel

  • Ziyu Li,
  • Weiwei Chang,
  • Tianyu Cui,
  • Dake Xu,
  • Dawei Zhang,
  • Yuntian Lou,
  • Hongchang Qian,
  • Hao Song,
  • Arjan Mol,
  • Fahe Cao,
  • Tingyue Gu,
  • Xiaogang Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00173-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Microbiologically influenced corrosion is a major source of degradation of metals. Here, extracellular electron transfer is studied during pitting corrosion of stainless steel in the presence of an electroactive bacterium and a riboflavin electron shuttle, revealing bidirectional electron transfer.