Publications by Melania Reggente

In vivo polydopamine coating of Rhodobacter sphaeroides for enhanced electron transfer

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Melania Reggente, Fabian Fischer

Recent advances in coupling light-harvesting microorganisms with electronic components have led to a new generation of biohybrid devices based on microbial photocatalysts. These devices are limited by the poorly conductive interface between phototrophs and ...

2024

Polydopamine-coated photoautotrophic bacteria for improving extracellular electron transfer in living photovoltaics

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Melania Reggente, Mohammed Mouhib, Fabian Fischer, Hanxuan Wang, Charlotte Elisabeth Marie Roullier, Patricia Brandl

Living photovoltaics are microbial electrochemical devices that use whole cell–electrode interactions to convert solar energy to electricity. The bottleneck in these technologies is the limited electron transfer between the microbe and the electrode surfac ...

2024

Differential near-infrared imaging of heterocysts using single-walled carbon nanotubes

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Alice Judith Gillen, Alessandra Antonucci, Melania Reggente, Benjamin Paul Johanès Gabriel Lambert, Charlotte Elisabeth Marie Roullier

2023

Extracellular electron transfer pathways to enhance the electroactivity of modified Escherichia coli

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Melania Reggente, Mohammed Mouhib, Nils Schürgers

Escherichia coli (E. coli) show limited extracellular electron transfer (EET) that compromises their use in bioelectronics. We enhance the EET in E. coli by expressing an electron transfer pathway that spans the inner and outer membranes of the cell, inclu ...

2023

Carbon nanotube uptake in cyanobacteria for near-infrared imaging and enhanced bioelectricity generation in living photovoltaics

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Alice Judith Gillen, Alessandra Antonucci, Vitalijs Zubkovs, Melania Reggente, Benjamin Paul Johanès Gabriel Lambert, Mohammed Mouhib, Nils Schürgers, Charlotte Elisabeth Marie Roullier

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have unique optoelectronic properties that make them suitable for applications ranging from phototherapy to imaging and sensing, but their uptake has mainly been explored in eukaryotic cells. Here the authors explore ...

2022

Design of Optimized PEDOT‐Based Electrodes for Enhancing Performance of Living Photovoltaics Based on Phototropic Bacteria

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Alessandra Antonucci, Melania Reggente, Sara Politi

Living photovoltaics represent a growing class of microbial devices that are based on whole cell–electrode interactions. The limited charge transfer at the cell–electrode interface represents a significant bottleneck in realizing an efficient technology. T ...

Wiley2020

Enhancing bioelectricity generation in microbial fuel cells and biophotovoltaics using nanomaterials

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Alice Judith Gillen, Alessandra Antonucci, Melania Reggente, Mohammed Mouhib, Amirmostafa Amirjani

Microbial fuel cells and biophotovoltaics represent promising technologies for green bioelectricity generation. However, these devices suffer from low durability and efficiency that stem from their reliance on living organisms to act as catalysts. Such lim ...

2019