electrogenicity

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English

Etymology

From electrogenic +‎ -ity.

Noun

electrogenicity (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being electrogenic
    • 2015 August 27, “Extracellular Electron Transfer Is a Bottleneck in the Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of C1018 Carbon Steel by the Biofilm of Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      When organic carbon is used as the electron donor, cross-cell wall electron transfer (i.e., electrogenicity) is not needed because organic molecules dissolve into the fluid and they are oxidized intracellularly after they diffuse into the cytoplasm.