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University of Toulouse - CNRS (France) - Laboratory of Chemical Engineering |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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The Laboratoire de Génie Chimique (Laboratory of chemical engineering) in Toulouse (France) belongs to the CNRS and the University of Toulouse. Its department “Bioprocess and microbial systems” gathers complementary skills in molecular biology, biotechnology, electrochemistry and chemical engineering. Around 10 researchers (permanent people, post-doc and PhD students) deal with understanding the electrochemical phenomena that occur at the interfaces between conductive materials and biological systems. Basic advances achieved in the field of microbial corrosion have led to propose very soon the concept of Electrochemically Active biofilms and to develop biofilm engineering to design microbial fuel cells (patent 2002).
The group has coordinated the European research project “Electrochemically active biofilms” (FP6 NEST programme www.ea-biofilms.org) and the European Research Group “Surfaces of materials in living environments, SMILE www.erg-smile.com). He belongs to the CNRS pole “Biofilms” (www.pnir-biofilms.org).
The home page:http://lgc.inp-toulouse.fr/
The MFC page:http://pcm-lgc.blogspot.com/
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