報告題目：Harvesting Energy from Waste: Accelerating Electron Transfer and Enhancing Microbial Fuel Cell Performance by Bioprocess Engineering

報告人👨🏼‍🔧：雍陽春博士

報告時間🤴：2012年04月27(周五)下午2👖：00

報告地點🗜：生物藥學樓3號樓105

摘要：Environmental pollution and energy crisis are two main challenges for global sustainable development. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is promising for simultaneous clean energy generation and pollutants treatment, and is considered to be the next wave of renewable energy. Microbes and microbial consortia in the anode of MFC could oxidize a diverse array of organic substrates (including organic pollutants in wastewater) to generate and transfer electrons to inertial solid electrodes, by which the conversion of chemical energy to electricity is achieved.

However, low electron transfer efficiency from bacteria to electrode, and thus the low energy output is one of the major bottlenecks that limit industrial applications of MFC. In this talk, I will be sharing bioprocess engineering strategies which were successfully applied to accelerate electron transfer and improve MFC performance, i.e., molecular breeding of bacterial strain and engineering of bacteria-electrode interface. Specifically, I will demonstrate the utilizations of metabolic engineering, signal transduction engineering, and bacterial outer membrane engineering to efficiently rewire the intracellular electrons to extracellular solid electrode, and thus improve the MFC energy output. In another aspect, the electrode-bacteria interface engineering (i.e., conductive artificial biofilm, 3D graphene/polyaniline/bacteria interface, and 3D self-assembled electroactive biofilm) which dramatically accelerated electron transfer from bacteria to electrode and MFC performance will be presented.

報告人簡介：雍陽春👳🏼，華東理工大學生物化工博士(師從鐘建江教授)，任華中農業大學農業微生物國家重點實驗室講師，目前為新加坡南洋理工大學Research Fellow。集中研究利用系統生物過程技術構建新型高效微生物燃料電池及生物傳感器.

聯系人：杜誌強     鐘建江實驗室