RESEARCH OUTLINE
Electron Flow and Evolution of Life:
Our target is to find the role of electrical current for emergence and evolution of life; how nature has utilized the electrical current from billion years ago, and its relevance in our modem technology, such as fuel cell, battery, voltage amplifier, and thermoelectric conversion. Knowing the evolution of this in nature would be a nice guidance to realize sustainable human ecosystems.
Commentary
- 生命誕生の謎をめぐる冒険(PDF)(日本語)
- 私たちは巨大電池の上に生きている(日本語)
- Carbon capture utilisation in the deep ocean: The hydrothermal fuel cell
- Electron Life ? Seeking biological electron transfer in the field of electro-microbiology(English)
- RIKEN NEWS 2016 March (PDF) (日本語)
- 東進タイムズ2011年11月1日号 (PDF)（日本語）
- RIKEN people | New energy ideas from the sea’s dark depths
TARGET 1
Press release & commentary for this project
- Geoelectricity-driven thioester formation: A possible prebiotic root of metabolism
- 深海底における電気化学的CO2固定-生命誕生の謎に迫る(PDF)(日本語)
- Hydrothermal vents generate deep-sea currents
- Deep-sea Hydrothermal Systems are “Natural Power Plants”-New clues to the discovery of electric ecosystems and elucidation of the origin of life-
- 深海熱水系は「天然の発電所」深海熱水噴出孔周辺における自然発生的な発電現象を実証～電気生態系発見や生命起源解明に新しい糸口～（日本語）
- Black smokers and electroecosystems
- Did life begin with a bolt from the deep blue?
- 海底から噴出する熱水を利用した燃料電池型発電に成功～深海における自律的長期電力供給の可能性～
- Power from deep-sea vents (PDF)
- Natural deep-sea batteries
- Movie for deep-sea power generation is available in Angewandte Chemie.
TARGET 2
Press release & commentary for this project
- Atomic arrangements of flat electrocatalysts define the fate of denitrification
- 電気化学反応の選択性を高める秘訣(日本語)
- 温和な環境で働く人工脱窒触媒－微生物の仕組みに学ぶ環境浄化技術－
- Pioneer the Physical Chemistry of Biological Electron Transfer based on Bacterial Extracellular Electron Transport (PDF)
- Electrolithoautotrophs
- A bacteria's double life: living off both iron and electricity
- 電気で生きる微生物を初めて特定－微生物が持つ微小電力の利用戦略
- Controlling electron transfer at the microbe-mineral interface
- Harnessing self-organizing bacterial networks for microbial fuel cells
- Progress Toward a Biological Fuel Cell?
- Uncovering the mechanisms of microbial electricity generation
TARGET 3
Press release & commentary for this project
- Green hydrogen production for fuel cells and fertilizers
- A new, sustainable way to make hydrogen for fuel cells and fertilizers非貴金属触媒から酸素が発生する様子
- 金属硫化物を用いた二酸化炭素還元電極触媒の設計指針を提示
- 実験・数理・機械学習の融合による触媒理論の開拓
- 触媒探索に向けた理論の拡張－豊富に存在する元素を用いた触媒開発に貢献－
- 水を電気分解し続けるマンガン触媒の動作条件を発見－希少元素に依存しない水素製造へ期待－
- 遺伝情報に学ぶ化学触媒設計－触媒化学と遺伝学の融合によるデータ駆動型触媒探索へ－
- Probing the stability of photosynthesis
- Manganese oxide nanoparticles exhibit new catalytic pathway
Bioinspired catalyst splits water (PDF)
- Insights from nature for more efficient water splitting