Anaerobic microbial iron corrosion due to conductive pili

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Iron is well-known for rusting, but this doesn't just happen on contact with oxygen and water. Some bacteria are also able to able to decompose iron anaerobically in a process referred to as electrobiocorrosion. The sediment-dwelling bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens uses electrically conductive protein threads for this purpose, as a team of researchers reports in the journal…

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