Team:TJU

MFCs are capable of converting the chemical energy stored in the chemical compounds in a biomass to electrical energy with the aid of microorganisms. However, traditional single-strain MFC faces many practical barriers especially low extracellular electron transfer (EET) rate, which seriously impedes the industrial application. Though efforts has been made to overcome the obstacle, narrow range of substrate, excessive genetic modification and multi-task stress of single electricigen still limit the improvement of MFC systems.

To solve this problem, extending engineering capabilities from single-cell behaviors to multicellular microbial consortia brings us new inspiration. So we establish a co-cultured system of E.coli and Shewanella with an elaborate labor division. To control a more complicated co-cultured system, a more reasonable and robust relationship of material, information and energy is being explored.