Bioelectrochemical Systems (BESs) are innovative and sustainable devices. They combine biological and electrochemical processes to engineer sensors, treat wastewater and/or produce electricity, fuel or high-value chemicals. In BESs, scientists have managed to incorporate biological catalysts, i.e. enzymes and/or microorganisms, and make them work in advanced electrochemical cells. BESs operate under mild conditions — at close to ambient temperature and pressure and at circumneutral pH — and represent a sustainable alternative to precious metal-based systems. Incorporating biological catalysts into devices while maintaining their activity and achieving electrical communication with electrode surfaces is a critical challenge when trying to advance the field of BESs.
From implantable enzymatic biosensors to microbial electrosynthesis, and from laboratory-scale systems and fundamental studies to marketed devices, this book provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances related to functional electrodes for BESs. Suitable for researchers and graduate students of chemistry, biochemistry, materials science and environmental science and technology.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Enzymatic Electrochemical Systems (805 KB)
- Fundamentals:
- Fundamentals of Enzymatic Electrochemical Systems (Victoria Flexer and Nicolas Brun)
- Fundamentals of Microbial Electrochemical Systems (Stefano Freguia, Kun Guo, and Pablo Ledezma)
- Continuum in Enzymatic and Microbial Bioelectrocatalysis (Frédéric Barrière)
- Electron Transfer Between Bacteria and Electrodes (Lucie Semenec, Sanja Aracic, Elizabeth R Mathews, and Ashley E Franks)
- Electrodes for Enzymatic Electrochemical Systems:
- Architectures of Enzyme Electrodes Using Redox Mediators (Victoria Flexer, Antonin Prévoteau, and Nicolas Brun)
- Functional Electrodes for Enzymatic Electrosynthesis (Lin Zhang, Mathieu Etienne, Neus Vilà, and Alain Walcarius)
- Redox Hydrogels as an Efficient Strategy for Immobilization of Enzymes at Electrode Interfaces (Joshua W Gallaway, and Scott Calabrese Barton)
- Conducting Polymer Hydrogels and Their Applications as Electrode Materials (Yu Zhao, Lanlan Li, Lijia Pan, Guihua Yu, and Yi Shi)
- Nanocarbon-Based Enzymatic Electrodes (Nicolas Brun, Mohammed Baccour, and Victoria Flexer)
- Carbonaceous Electrodes Featuring Tunable Mesopores for Use as Enzyme Electrodes (Seiya Tsujimura)
- Electrodes for Microbial Electrochemical Systems:
- Materials and Their Surface Modification for Use as Anode in Microbial Bioelectrochemical Systems (Kun Guo, Antonin Prévoteau, Sunil A Patil, and Korneel Rabaey)
- Electrodes for Cathodic Microbial Electrosynthesis Processes: Key-Developments and Criteria for Effective Research and Implementation (Ludovic Jourdin and David Strik)
- Non-Carbonaceous Electrodes for Microbial Electrochemical Systems (Hernán Romeo, Diego Massazza, Rodrigo Parra, and Juan Pablo Busalmen)
- Imaging and Characterization of Bioelectrodes:
- Imaging and Characterization of Microbial Electrodes (Yang Lu and Bogdan C Donose)
- Spectroscopic Methods for Characterizing Redox Chemistry at Metalloprotein-Modified Electrodes (Philip A Ash and Kylie A Vincent)
- Spectroelectrochemistry of Microbial Biofilms (Diego Millo and Bernardino Virdis)
- Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy: A New Tool for Studying Enzymatic Reactions (Dodzi Zigah and Olivier Fontaine)
Readership: Suitable for researchers, postgraduate and graduate students of chemistry, biochemistry and environmental science and technology.
