Use of a Coculture To Enable Current Production by Geobacter sulfurreducens

Y. Qu, Y. Feng, X. Wang, B. E. Logan

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Abstract

Microbial fuel cells often produce more electrical power with mixed cultures than with pure cultures. Here, we show that a coculture of a nonexoelectrogen (Escherichia coli) and Geobacter sulfurreducens improved system performance relative to that of a pure culture of the exoelectrogen due to the consumption of oxygen leaking into the reactor.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3484-3487
Number of pages4
JournalApplied and Environmental Microbiology
Volume78
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 17 2012
Externally publishedYes

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