Utilizing the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for microbial electricity generation: a living solar cell.
By employing living cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, we demonstrate the possibility of direct electricity generation from microbial photosynthetic activity. The presented concept is based on an in situ oxidative depletion of hydrogen, photosynthetically produced by C. reinhardtii under sulfur-deprived conditions, by polymer-coated electrocatalytic electrodes.
Rosenbaum
Miriam
M
Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Greifswald, Soldmannstrasse 16, Greifswald, 17489, Germany.
Schröder
Uwe
U
Scholz
Fritz
F
D000818:Animals; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods; D016825:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / Q000166:cytology* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D000460:Chlorophyta / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D004560:Electricity; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004566:Electrodes; D004736:Energy-Generating Resources; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010788:Photosynthesis; D013455:Sulfur / Q000378:metabolism; D013472:Sunlight
D013455:Sulfur; D006859:Hydrogen