Yan Dang

TL;DR: Results suggest that Sporanaerobacter species can participate in direct interspecies electron transfer with Methanosarcina species when carbon cloth is available as an electron transfer mediator.

TL;DR: In an attempt to establish methanogenic communities metabolizing propionate or butyrate with DIET, enrichments were initiated with up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB), similar to those that were previously reported to support communities that metabolized ethanol withDIET that relied on direct biological electrical connections.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the reason that Geobacter species are repeatedly found to be among the most metabolically active microorganisms in methanogenic soils is that they grow syntrophically in cooperation with Methanothrix spp.

TL;DR: Experiments demonstrated that granular activated carbon (GAC) could improve the syntrophic metabolism of propionate and/or butyrate of the ethanol-stimulated enrichments, while almost no effects on the traditional enrichments.

TL;DR: The results of this study demonstrated that anaerobic digesters supplemented with conductive carbon cloth had a higher capacity to resist the acidic impacts, and suggested that the predominant working mode for the interspecies electron exchange might have shifted from IHT to DIET in the presence of the conductivecarbon cloth during acidic impacts.