Investigation of microbial long-distance electron transport via spectroscopy and electrochemistry. University of Antwerp
Geobiology, Antwerp Electrochemical and Analytical Sciences Lab (A-Sense Lab), AXES (Antwerp X-ray Analysis, Electrochemistry and Speciation), Ecosystem Management
Recently, long filamentous bacteria have been discovered in marine sediments, which are capable of generating and mediating electricity over centimeter-scale distances. These so-called "cable bacteria" have evolved a new mechanism for mediating electrical currents, which extends the known length scale of microbial electron transmission by two orders of magnitude. Cable bacteria are multi-cellular and possess a unique energy metabolism, in which ...