(Phys.org) —Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 25, 2013
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Rare earth elements are essential components of electric cars, wind turbines and smartphones. Retrieving these metals from raw ore requires processing with acids and solvents.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 2, 2023
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The researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a miniaturized bionic ocean-battery, a bio-solar cell that converts light into electricity, by mimicking the basic ecological ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 30, 2022
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Humans aren't the only ones who have harnessed the power of electricity. Some bacteria do this, too, by producing structures that extend from their surface like wires to transfer electrons over distances. Now, scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2018
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Researchers at Princeton and Harvard Universities have developed a way to produce the tools for figuring out gene function faster and cheaper than current methods, according to new research in the journal Nature Communications.
Biotechnology
Nov 10, 2016
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(Phys.org) -- For the first time, each step an electron takes as it moves along a "wire" from a microbe's interior to the outside world is known, thanks to modeling by University College London and Pacific Northwest National ...
Materials Science
Jul 25, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Another step toward improving understanding of electron exchange between microbes and minerals has been documented in the January 2010 issue of Geobiology. Bacteria such as the metal-reducing Shewanella oneidensis ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of East Anglia, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which some bacteria can transfer ...
Biochemistry
Dec 29, 2009
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Researchers are studying some common soil bacteria that "inhale" toxic metals and "exhale" them in a non-toxic form.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 16, 2009
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Luis Zea is investigating the possibility of mining metals from asteroids in space using an unlikely agent: bacteria.
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2019
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