Tailored functional electrode structures for SMART bioreactors (A05)

• Subject Area: Solid State and Surface Chemistry, Material Synthesis ; Biological Process Engineering ; Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering ; Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 503850735

New carbon foam electrodes will be developed based on a ceramic template CVD process. By tailoring a porous microstructure for optimal microorganism activity and biofilm growths measured by small flow cell reactors for rapid testing of small electrode samples. To propose generic rules for the prediction of microbe electrode interactions, we will elucidate the molecular basis of the cellular response to the different materials using transcriptomic analyses. With a promising subset of materials, we aim for a first upscaling step in a plug flow reactor system with a reactor volume of up to 5 liters.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1615: SMART Reactors for Future Process Engineering
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Hamburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr.-Ing. Bodo Fiedler; Professor Dr. Johannes Gescher