Abstract
A mediated glassy carbon electrode covered by a thin-film polyviologen was used in the present study to rapidly detect bioactivity in a mixed-culture chemostat (dominated by Clostridium sp.). With the addition of 1mM hexacyanoferrate and 9mM glucose, the current increasing rate (dI/dt) measured under a poised potential of 500mV (vs. Ag/AgCl) can be defined as the quantity of metabolic activity. In the experiment of restoring the chemostat from stop-feeding, it is suggested that when the dI/dt was >2μAmin−1, the influent pump could be directly turned on to maintain the high dilution rate of 0.5h−1; when the dI/dt was lower than 2μAmin−1, reducing the dilution rate would be needed to avoid cell wash out. Since the soluble mediators and polyviologen film will enhance performances by favorable electron transfer and positively charged surfaces, respectively, we suggest that the method can also be employed to detect the bioactivities in environmental samples.
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