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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 331, Issue -, Pages 280-288Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.02.054
Keywords
Polarity inversion; Bidirectional electron transfer; Biocathode; Nitroaromatics and azo dye reduction
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31500084, 21577162]
- Key Deployment Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences [ZDRW-ZS-2016-5-5]
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The enrichment of specific pollutant-reducing consortium is usually required prior to the startup of bio-cathode bioelectrochemical system (BES) and the whole process is time consuming. To rapidly establish a non-specific functional biocathode, direct polar inversion from bioanode to biocathode is proposed in this study. Based on the diverse reductases and electron transfer related proteins of anode-respiring bacteria (ARB), the acclimated electrochemically active biofilm (EAB) may catalyze reduction of different aromatic pollutants. Within approximately 12 d, the acclimated bioanodes were directly employed as biocathodes for nitroaromatic nitrobenzene (NB) and azo dye acid orange 7 (AO7) reduction. Our results indicated that the established biocathode significantly accelerated the reduction of NB to aniline (AN) and AO7 to discolored products compared with the abiotic cathode and open circuit controls. Several microbes possessing capabilities of nitroaromatic/azo dye reduction and bidirectional electron transfer were maintained or enriched in the biocathode communities. Cyclic voltammetry highlighted the decreased over-potentials and enhanced electron transfer of biocathode as well as demonstrated the ARB Geobacter containing cytochrome c involved in the backward electron transfer from electrode to NB. This study offers new insights into the rapid establishment and modularization of functional biocathodes for the potential treatment of complicated electron acceptors-coexisting wastewaters. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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