ArticleEnvironmental microbiology2023
Novel approaches to energize microbial biocatalysts.
Article in Environmental microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Novel approaches to energize microbial biocatalysts.Environmental microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
An efficient and cheap energization of microbial biocatalysts is essential in current biotechnological processes. A promising alternative to the use of common organic or inorganic electron donors is the semiconductor nanoparticles (SNs) that absorb light and transfer electrons (photoelectrons) behaving as artificial photosynthetic systems (biohybrid systems). Excited photoelectrons generated by illuminated SNs are highly reductive and readily accepted by membrane-bound proteins and electron shuttles to drive specific cell reduction processes and energy generation in microbes. However, the operational mechanisms of these hybrid systems are still poorly understood, especially at the material-microbe interface, and therefore the design and production of efficient biohybrids are challenging. Some major limitations/challenges and future prospects of SNs as microbial energization systems are discussed.
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