{"id":110609,"date":"2020-07-29T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/metal-breathing-bacteria-could-transform-electronics-biosensors-and-more"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:11:21","slug":"metal-breathing-bacteria-could-transform-electronics-biosensors-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/metal-breathing-bacteria-could-transform-electronics-biosensors-and-more","title":{"rendered":"Metal-breathing bacteria could transform electronics, biosensors, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metal-breathing-bacteria-could-transform-electronics-biosensors-and-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the Shewanella oneidensis bacterium \u201cbreathes\u201d in certain metal and sulfur compounds anaerobically, the way an aerobic organism would process oxygen, it produces materials that could be used to enhance electronics, electrochemical energy storage, and drug-delivery devices.<\/p>\n<p>The ability of this bacterium to produce molybdenum disulfide\u2014a material that is able to transfer electrons easily, like graphene\u2014is the focus of research published in <i>Biointerphases<\/i> by a team of engineers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has some serious potential if we can understand this process and control aspects of how the bacteria are making these and other materials,\u201d said Shayla Sawyer, an associate professor of electrical, computer, and systems engineering at Rensselaer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Shewanella oneidensis bacterium \u201cbreathes\u201d in certain metal and sulfur compounds anaerobically, the way an aerobic organism would process oxygen, it produces materials that could be used to enhance electronics, electrochemical energy storage, and drug-delivery devices. The ability of this bacterium to produce molybdenum disulfide\u2014a material that is able to transfer electrons easily, like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}