NDLI: Reply to the ‘Comment on “On electrical conductivity of microbial nanowires and biofilms”’ by N. S. Malvankar, M. T. Tuominen and D. R. Lovley, <i>Energy Environ. Sci.</i>, 2012, <b>5</b>, DOI: 10.1039/c2ee02613a

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Tender, Leonard M. Strycharz-Glaven, Sarah M.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Geobacter sulfurreducens can acquire energy by coupling oxidation of acetate with extracellular electron transfer to an anode, forming an electrically conductive biofilm extending many cell lengths away from the anode surface. Owing to their conductivity, such biofilms may play important roles in emerging technologies referred to as bioelectrochemical systems (BES). In these systems, microbes are used to catalyze anode processes for which abiotic catalysts do not exist, such as wastewater treatment and energy generation from biomass by fuel cells. Two models describing the conductive nature of G. sulfurreducens biofilms grown on anodes (biofilm anodes) have recently been put forth; superexchange proposed by our group, recently published in Energy and Environmental Science, which invokes electron-transfer among a network of cytochromes, and metallic-like conductivity proposed by Malvankar et al., recently published in Nature Nanotechnology, which invokes intrinsic conductivity of certain secreted microbial filaments referred to as nanowires. Here, we respond to criticisms raised by Malvankar et al. in the preceding commentary concerning superexchange.
Starting Page	6250
Ending Page	6255
Page Count	6
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ISSN	17545692
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	3
Journal	Energy & Environmental Science
DOI	10.1039/c2ee03056j
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Energy and Environmental Science Malvankar Geobacter Anode Biofilm Bioelectrochemistry Wastewater Biomass Superexchange Nature Nanotechnology
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Subject	Environmental Chemistry Pollution Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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