#electrobiocorrosion — Public Fediverse posts
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Anaerobic #microbial iron corrosion due to conductive pili https://phys.org/news/2023-08-anaerobic-microbial-iron-corrosion-due.html
Accelerated Microbial Corrosion by #Magnetite and Electrically Conductive Pili through Direct Fe0-to-Microbe Electron Transfer https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202309005
"#Iron is well-known for #rusting... Some #bacteria are able to decompose Fe anaerobically in a process referred to as #electrobiocorrosion. The sediment-dwelling #bacterium #Geobacter sulfurreducens uses electrically conductive #protein threads for this purpose"