title: Use of a coculture to enable current production by geobacter sulfurreducens.
abstract: Microbial fuel cells often produce more electrical power with mixed cultures than with pure cultures. Here, we show that a coculture of a nonexoelectrogen (Escherichia coli) and Geobacter sulfurreducens improved system performance relative to that of a pure culture of the exoelectrogen due to the consumption of oxygen leaking into the reactor.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Nangang District, Harbin,China.
authors.forename: Youpeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qu
authors.forename: Yujie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Bruce E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Logan
mesh_terms: D001674:Bioelectric Energy Sources / Q000382:microbiology*; D004560:Electricity; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000254:growth & development*; D045302:Geobacter / Q000254:growth & development*