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Cathode Reactions and Applications in Microbial Fuel Cells: A Review
Min Lu,Sam Fong Yau Li +1 more
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In this paper, the authors reviewed the cathode reactions and applications in MFC systems, listed and evaluated the MFC performance in various applications, and finally made a critical assessment for the future trend of cathode reaction research for MFCs.Abstract:
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) has drawn much attention over the past decades for its potential applications in energy recovery (bioelectricity) from biomass waste. Apart from bioelectricity generation, some other applications were developed recently in the MFC cathodes, including bioremediation and bioproduction. The authors reviewed the cathode reactions and applications in MFC systems, listed and evaluated the MFC performance in various applications, and finally made a critical assessment for the future trend of cathode reaction research for MFCs.read more
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A comprehensive review on microbial fuel cell technologies: Processes, utilization, and advanced developments in electrodes and membranes
Gowthami Palanisamy,Ho-Young Jung,T. Sadhasivam,Mahaveer D. Kurkuri,Sang Chai Kim,Sung-Hee Roh +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the development and advancements of electrode and membrane materials for increasing the microbial fuel cell performances in recent years have been discussed and reviewed and discussed the different categories of electrode (anode and cathode) materials with various structural, dimensional, compositions and integrations.
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Carbon-Based Microbial-Fuel-Cell Electrodes: From Conductive Supports to Active Catalysts.
TL;DR: Future applications of carbon-electrode-based MFC devices in the energy, environmental, and biological fields are discussed, and the emerging challenges in transferring them from laboratory to industrial scale are described.
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Sustainable energy recovery in wastewater treatment by microbial fuel cells: Stable power generation with nitrogen-doped graphene cathode
TL;DR: Electrochemical measurements showed that the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on NG possessed sustained activity close to the state-of-art Pt/C in terms of onset potential and electron transfer number, and structure characterization of NG implied that the relatively concentrated acidic oxygen-containing groups improved such long-time stability by repelling the protons due to the same electrostatic force.
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Performance improvement of microbial fuel cells for waste water treatment along with value addition: A review on past achievements and recent perspectives
Payel Choudhury,Uma Shankar Prasad Uday,Nibedita Mahata,Onkar Nath Tiwari,Rup Narayan Ray,Tarun Kanti Bandyopadhyay,Biswanath Bhunia +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review has been made critically on overall performance improvement strategies of microbial fuel cells and its application on waste water treatment along with effective power generation, where extensive research work has been carried out on microorganism selection, suitable MFC designs, appropriate electrode materials and optimum level of process parameters which would accelerate commercialization of this technology in near future.
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The integrated processes for wastewater treatment based on the principle of microbial fuel cells: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the emerging technologies based on MFC and discuss the development tendency and the challenges of these technologies. And they also provide a framework to identify priorities for further research on this area.
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Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology†
Bruce E. Logan,Bert Hamelers,René A. Rozendal,Uwe Schröder,Jurg Keller,Stefano Freguia,P. Aelterman,Willy Verstraete,Korneel Rabaey +8 more
TL;DR: A review of the different materials and methods used to construct MFCs, techniques used to analyze system performance, and recommendations on what information to include in MFC studies and the most useful ways to present results are provided.
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Standard Potentials in Aqueous Solution
TL;DR: Standard Potentials in Aqueous solution as mentioned in this paper is a collection of thermodynamic data from the IUPAC Commissions onElectrochemistry and Electroanalytical Chemistry, and it is a valuable supplementarytext for undergraduate and graduate-level chemistry students.
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Microbial Fuel Cells
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the application of MFCs in renewable energy generation and energy sustainability of the water infrastructure, as well as their application in the field of bioremediation.
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Biofuel Cells Select for Microbial Consortia That Self-Mediate Electron Transfer
TL;DR: Enrichment by repeated transfer of a bacterial consortium harvested from the anode compartment of a biofuel cell in which glucose was used increased the output and selected organisms capable of mediating the electron transfer either by direct bacterial transfer or by excretion of redox components.
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Power densities using different cathode catalysts (Pt and CoTMPP) and polymer binders (nafion and PTFE) in single chamber microbial fuel cells.
TL;DR: Results demonstrate that cathodes used in MFCs can contain very little Pt, and that the Pt can even be replaced with a non-precious metal catalyst such as a CoTMPP with only slightly reduced performance.