How electricity-eating microbes use electrons to fix carbon dioxide

Saturday, March 23, 2019 - 21:50 in Physics & Chemistry

A phototrophic microbe called Rhodopseudomonas palustris takes up electrons from conductive substances like metal oxides or rust to reduce carbon dioxide.

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