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Bacterial extracellular electron transfer: a powerful route to the green biosynthesis of inorganic nanomaterials for multifunctional applications

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JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 19, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12951-021-00868-7

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Extracellular electron transfer; Biosynthesis; Inorganic nanomaterials; Microbial nano-factory; Metal nanoparticles

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31900109, 31960015]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province [20202ACB215001]
  3. Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2020QC009]
  4. Project of Graduate Innovation Foundation from Education Department of Jiangxi Province [YC2020-S181]

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The synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials using biological entities as smart nanofactories has emerged as a significant scientific endeavor in recent years, offering environmentally friendly and cost-effective methods. However, the lack of understanding of the underlying mechanisms has hindered progress in bio-manufacturing. Dissimilatory metal reduction bacteria, such as Shewanella and Geobacter species, have unique extracellular electron transfer features that enable controllable and tailorable fabrication of inorganic nanomaterials, showing advantages in various applications such as energy conversion, pollutant remediation, and biomedicine. Challenges and prospects in the field of bio-manufacturing with well-defined controllability are discussed for further advancement.
Synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials such as metal nanoparticles (MNPs) using various biological entities as smart nanofactories has emerged as one of the foremost scientific endeavors in recent years. The biosynthesis process is environmentally friendly, cost-effective and easy to be scaled up, and can also bring neat features to products such as high dispersity and biocompatibility. However, the biomanufacturing of inorganic nanomaterials is still at the trial-and-error stage due to the lack of understanding for underlying mechanism. Dissimilatory metal reduction bacteria, especially Shewanella and Geobacter species, possess peculiar extracellular electron transfer (EET) features, through which the bacteria can pump electrons out of their cells to drive extracellular reduction reactions, and have thus exhibited distinct advantages in controllable and tailorable fabrication of inorganic nanomaterials including MNPs and graphene. Our aim is to present a critical review of recent state-of-the-art advances in inorganic biosynthesis methodologies based on bacterial EET using Shewanella and Geobacter species as typical strains. We begin with a brief introduction about bacterial EET mechanism, followed by reviewing key examples from literatures that exemplify the powerful activities of EET-enabled biosynthesis routes towards the production of a series of inorganic nanomaterials and place a special emphasis on rationally tailoring the structures and properties of products through the fine control of EET pathways. The application prospects of biogenic nanomaterials are then highlighted in multiple fields of (bio-) energy conversion, remediation of organic pollutants and toxic metals, and biomedicine. A summary and outlook are given with discussion on challenges of bio-manufacturing with well-defined controllability.

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