A highly conductive fibre network enables centimetre-scale electron transport in multicellular cable bacteria

A highly conductive fibre network enables centimetre-scale electron transport in multicellular cable bacteria

Cable bacteria’ form long multicellular filaments that can transfer electrical currents over centimetre-long distances. Here, Meysman et al. show that the electrical currents run along highly conductive fibres embedded in the cell envelope, and charge transfer is electronic rather than ionic.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Filip J. R. Meysman, Rob Cornelissen, Stanislav Trashin, Robin Bonné, Silvia Hidalgo Martinez, Jasper van der Veen, Carsten J. Blom, Cheryl Karman, Ji-Ling Hou, Raghavendran Thiruvallur Eachambadi, Jeanine S. Geelhoed, Karolien De Wael, Hubertus J. E. Beaumont, Bart Cleuren, Roland Valcke, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Henricus T. S. Boschker, Jean V. Manca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12115-7

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12115-7

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