Design and intelligent use renewable natural bioenergy is an important challenge. Electric microorganism-based materials are being serve as an important part of bioenergy devices for energy release and collection, calling for suitable skeleton materials to anchor live microbes. Herein we verified the feasibility of constructing bio-abiotic hybrid living materials based on the combination of gelatin, Li-ions and exoelectrogenic bacteria Shewanella oneidensis manganese-reducing-1 (MR-1). The gelatin-based mesh contains abundant pores, allowing microbes to dock and small molecules to diffuse. The hybrid materials hold plentiful electronegative groups, which effectively anchor Li-ions and facilitate their transition. Moreover, the electrochemical characteristics of the materials can be modulated through changing the ratios of gelatin, bacteria and Li-ions. Based on the gelatin-Li-ion-microorganism hybrid materials, a bifunctional device was fabricated, which could play dual roles alternatively, generation of electricity as a microbial fuel cell and energy storage as a pseudocapacitor. The capacitance and the maximum voltage output of the device reaches 68 F g and 0.67 V, respectively. This system is a new platform and fresh start to fabricate bio-abiotic living materials for microbial electron storage and transfer. We expect the setup will extend to other living systems and devices for synthetic biological energy conversion.
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