recently I noticed the item "electrophilic strain". Can they gain electron more effective than the usual strain,Idon't know if it's right for my words,if it's yes,is there any different between the electrophilic strain and the usual strain?
I suppose the question is "bioelectrochemical" in nature, assuming that strain refers to bacteria in this case.
The typical terms to refer to strains in microbial electrochemical systems are exoelectrogens of electrotrophs, meaning that they can discharge or receive electrons to or from the anode and cathode, respectively. (You can find more of the definition in our paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260552925_A_critical_revisit_of_the_key_parameters_used_to_describe_microbial_electrochemical_systems).
The term "electrophile" or "electrophilic strain" most typically has a non-biological but chemical meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophile
Now, electrophilic strain, in the context of microbial strains could refer to microbes that have affinity for or produce "chemical electrophilic compounds". Electrophilic substrates, electrophilic products.
However, the term electrophilic strain has been also indistinguishably used to refer to bacteria that produce electrons in their metabolic pathway and the electrons can be extracted and concentrated on electrodes, as opposed to e.g. fermentative routes where this would not happen. I do not think ther is any relationship on how effectively these bacteria gain or deliver electrons, but just to the fact that there is a way in which they can indeed effectively discharge or uptake them from the electrodes.
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To Dr.Xochitl Dominguez-Benetton, thanks for you answer and I have another question:As you said, electrophilic strains could refer to microbes that have affinity for or produce "chemical electrophilic compounds":Electrophilic substrates, electrophilic products. For all the strains,whether all they have this ability or not?
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