PHOSBURY – Photosynthetic bacteria in Self-assembled Biocompatible coatings for the transduction of energy

PHOSBURY – Photosynthetic bacteria in Self-assembled Biocompatible coatings for the transduction of energy

Duration: From April 2022 to October 2024 (2.5 years)

Funding Institution: SNSF – Swiss National Science Foundation

Contact person: M. Trotta

Improve the electron transfer between the microbe and electrode surface, the bottleneck in existing microbial technologies, by engineering microbes capable of biopolymerizing their own inter-and intra-cellular conductive network. Partners: EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Svizzera; University of Applied Sciences and Arts West, Svizzera;Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italia

Other people involved: R. Labarile, M. Varsalona