Work

Salt-Induced Self-Assembly of Bacteria on Nanowire Arrays

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Studying bacteria-nanostructure interactions is crucial to gaining controllable interfacing of biotic and abiotic components in advanced biotechnologies. For bioelectrochemical systems, tunable cell-electrode architectures offer a path toward improving performance and discovering emergent properties. As such, Sporomusa ovata cells cultured on vertical silicon nanowire arrays formed filamentous cells and aligned parallel to the nanowires when grown in increasing ionic concentrations. Here, we propose a model describing the kinetic and the thermodynamic driving forces of bacteria-nanowire interactions.

Source: Nano Letters

DOI: 10.1021/nl502946j

Authors: Kelsey K. Sakimoto, Chong Liu, Jongwoo Lim, Peidong Yang

Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute

Language: English

Topic: Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Subfield: Environmental Engineering

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy

Awards: Graduate Research Fellowship Program, G349715080