Energy Storage: Biogenic Realgar As₄S₄ Molecular Clusters Formed by a One‐Pot Microbial‐Driven Process as a Li‐Ion Storage Material (Adv. Sustainable Syst. 7/2017)

In article number 1700056, by Min Gyu Kim, Hor-Gil Hur and co-workers, bacteria enable well-controlled morphological and nanostructured materials to be obtained, by a one-pot facile microbiological synthesis through bacteria-respiration process under aqueous conditions, along with environmentally-toxic element remediation. The functional inorganic materials can be directly applied to an energy storage-conversion field. Bacterium Shewanella sp. strain HN-41 easily makes wiretype arsenic sulfides consisting of free-standing molecular-cage-like single clusters as an independent Li-ion battery anode unit.