Biological Electron-Transfer Dynamics in Multiheme Cytochrome Complexes
By Clarence Nakano
For visualizing the simulated electron-transfer (ET) dynamics with enhanced depth perception, I further built an immersive visualization system using a commodity virtual-reality platform and a game engine. My immersive simulation results reveal novel nonequilibrium phase transitions with which Shewanella efficiently responds to a change in its electrochemical environment. These results shed useful light on boosting the efficiency of Shewanella-based microbial fuel cells by increasing the ET rate, in order to produce electricity and water from sewage toward solving the global energy and environmental problems.