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Nano Research 2023, 16(4): 4531-4538 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3883-0
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Biosynthetic CdS–Thiobacillus thioparus hybrid for solar-driven carbon dioxide fixation

Show Author's Information Guangyu Liu1,2,  Feng Gao1,  Hongwei Zhang1,  Lei Wang3,4( ),  Chao Gao1( ),  Yujie Xiong1,2( )
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, 350 Shushanhu Rd., Hefei 230031, China
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, China
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cadmium sulfide, biohybrids, carbon cycle, autotrophic bacteria, solar-driven CO2 fixation, Thiobacillus thioparus
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Synergistically combining biological whole-cell bacteria with man-made semiconductor materials innovates the way for sustainable solar-driven CO2 fixation, showing great promise to break through the bottleneck in traditional chemical photocatalyst systems. However, most of the biohybrids require uneconomical organic nutrients and anaerobic conditions for the successful cultivation of the bacteria to sustain the CO2 fixation, which severely limits their economic viability and applicability for practical application. Herein, we present an inorganic-biological hybrid system composed of obligate autotrophic bacteria Thiobacillus thioparus (T. thioparus) and CdS nanoparticles (NPs) biologically precipitated on the bacterial surface, which can achieve efficient CO2 fixation based entirely on cost-effective inorganic salts and without the restriction of anaerobic conditions. The optimized interface between CdS NPs and T. thioparus formed by biological precipitation plays an essential role for T. thioparus efficiently receiving photogenerated electrons from CdS NPs and thus changing the autotrophic way from chemoautotroph to photoautotroph. As a result, the CdS–T. thioparus biohybrid realizes the solar-driven CO2 fixation to produce multi-carbon glutamate synthase and biomass under visible-light irradiation with CO2 as the only carbon source. This work provides significant inspiration for the further exploration of the solar-driven self-replicating biocatalytic system to achieve CO2 fixation and conversion.


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Biosynthetic CdS–Thiobacillus thioparus hybrid for solar-driven carbon dioxide fixation

Show Author's information Guangyu Liu1,2, Feng Gao1, Hongwei Zhang1, Lei Wang3,4( ), Chao Gao1( ), Yujie Xiong1,2( )
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, 350 Shushanhu Rd., Hefei 230031, China
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200092, China

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Synergistically combining biological whole-cell bacteria with man-made semiconductor materials innovates the way for sustainable solar-driven CO2 fixation, showing great promise to break through the bottleneck in traditional chemical photocatalyst systems. However, most of the biohybrids require uneconomical organic nutrients and anaerobic conditions for the successful cultivation of the bacteria to sustain the CO2 fixation, which severely limits their economic viability and applicability for practical application. Herein, we present an inorganic-biological hybrid system composed of obligate autotrophic bacteria Thiobacillus thioparus (T. thioparus) and CdS nanoparticles (NPs) biologically precipitated on the bacterial surface, which can achieve efficient CO2 fixation based entirely on cost-effective inorganic salts and without the restriction of anaerobic conditions. The optimized interface between CdS NPs and T. thioparus formed by biological precipitation plays an essential role for T. thioparus efficiently receiving photogenerated electrons from CdS NPs and thus changing the autotrophic way from chemoautotroph to photoautotroph. As a result, the CdS–T. thioparus biohybrid realizes the solar-driven CO2 fixation to produce multi-carbon glutamate synthase and biomass under visible-light irradiation with CO2 as the only carbon source. This work provides significant inspiration for the further exploration of the solar-driven self-replicating biocatalytic system to achieve CO2 fixation and conversion.

Keywords: cadmium sulfide, biohybrids, carbon cycle, autotrophic bacteria, solar-driven CO2 fixation, Thiobacillus thioparus

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Received: 24 August 2021
Revised: 06 September 2021
Accepted: 10 September 2021
Published: 11 October 2021
Issue date: April 2023

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2020YFA0406103), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21725102, 91961106, and 91963108), DNL Cooperation Fund, CAS (No. DNL201922), and Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS.

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