Abstract
Editorial: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives on Emerging Bioelectrochemical Technologies.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Microbiotechnology, Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology
Pollutants can be degraded by a specialized microbial catalyst at the anode while the electrons and protons generated can be used by a biocathode to synthesize useful chemicals
Among the notable applications of bioelectrochemical systems (BESs), the most extensively studied is microbial fuel cell, a technology developed over the last century for the production of electrical energy from chemical substrates oxidized by a microbial catalyst at the anode (Potter, 1911; Logan and Rabaey, 2012)
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Microbiotechnology, Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. In its simplest form, bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) consist of an anode, a cathode, and a microbial catalyst (Rabaey and Rozendal, 2010). One of the attractive features of bioelectrochemical technology is that, BESs can be developed to implement anodic-based or cathodic-based bioprocesses or both at the same time. Pollutants can be degraded by a specialized microbial catalyst at the anode while the electrons and protons generated can be used by a biocathode to synthesize useful chemicals.
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