Microbiome analysis of anode MEC Metagenome

The present study provides an fast and effective method for GO electrodeposition on a carbon brush electrode (anode) which avoids the use of contaminant reagents, and presents a low sensitivity to temperature and reduced stoichiometry uncertainty13, thus providing a sustainable and technically sound alternative to methods like thermal, chemical, photothermal and laser-induced reduction methods. The GO electrodeposited electrodes were characterised in abiotic and biotic conditions, and bacterial communities on the anode biofilm were analysed by means of high throughput sequencing at the end of the experiment. Above all, we aim at assessing both the effect of electrochemically reduced GO (erGO) on the start-up process of a bio-anode, and how the erGO impacts on the development of the exoelectrogenic microbial communities in the anodic biofilm after a long-term operation of the BES.