King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Veerraghavulu Sapireddy

Krishna Prasad Katuri

Pascal E Saikaly

Srikanth Pedireddy

Carbon-based single metal atom or bimetallic, trimetallic, or multimetallic alloy transition metal-containing catalysts derived from exoelectrogen bacteria and their methods of making and using thereof are described. The method comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a solution medium comprising at least an electron donor and an electron acceptor comprised of one or more salts of a transition metal; (b) providing exoelectrogen bacterial cells and mixing the exoelectrogen bacterial cells into the solution medium of step (a); (c) incubating the solution medium of step (b); (d) isolating the exoelectrogen bacterial cells from the incubated solution medium of step (c); and (e) pyrolyzing the exoelectrogen bacterial cells resulting in formation of the catalyst. The electron donor can be formate, acetate, or hydrogen.

Single metal atom or bimetallic alloy heterogeneous catalysts on a carbonaceous support produced by metal precursor deposition on exoelectrogen bacteria and pyrolyzing

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Veerraghavulu Sapireddy