Application of Exoelectrogens Polymer in Environmental Treatment
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2023) | Viewed by 508
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resource recovery; wastewater treatment; microbial electrochemical technology; extracellular polymeric substances; electron transfer
Interests: microbial fuel cell; bioelectrochemical system; environmental functional nanomaterials; wastewater treatment; oxygen reduction reaction; environmental science
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Interests: microbial electrochemical technology; extracellular electron transport; electroactive bacteria; industrial wastewater treatment; interaction between materials and bacteria
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the construction of ecological civilization and carbon emission reduction have become fashionable, environmental treatment technologies have changed direction towards lower energy consumption and increased resource recycling. Exoelectrogens polymer-based microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) using microorganisms, instead of expensive metal catalysts, convert the biodegradable organic compounds into energy and small molecular substances. This promising polymer-based technology has drawn much attention because of its low energy consumption, low sludge production, and resource recovery characteristics.
This Special Issue aims to collect research papers and review articles with original contributions to the development, application, testing, and mechanism analysis of exoelectrogens polymer-based technology, with a special focus on substance transformation and electron transfer in METs. The Special Issue covers, among other topics:
- Rapid biofilm development methods；
- Exploration of extracellular electron transport in exoelectrogens biofilm polymers；
- Metabolic mechanism of pollutants in METs;
- Challenges in the development and implementation of METs;
- Application of functional materials in exoelectrogens polymer-based technology.
Dr. Lean Zhou
Dr. Junfeng Chen
Dr. Tian Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater
- extracellular polymeric substances
- exoelectrogens
- biofilm
- extracellular electron transfer
- bioremediation
- resource recovery
- biocatalysis
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