Segregation of the Anodic Microbial Communities in a Microbial Fuel Cell Cascade.

ABSTRACT: Metabolic interactions within microbial communities are essential for the efficient degradation of complex organic compounds, and underpin natural phenomena driven by microorganisms, such as the recycling of carbon-, nitrogen-, and sulfur-containing molecules. These metabolic interactions ultimately determine the function, activity and stability of the community, and therefore their understanding would be essential to steer processes where microbial communities are involved. This is exploited in the design of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), bioelectrochemical devices that convert the chemical energy present in substrates into electrical energy through the metabolic activity of microorganisms, either single species or communities. In this work, we analyzed the evolution of the microbial commun

SUBMITTER: Hodgson DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4863660 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature