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Microbial fuel cells: novel biotechnology for energy generation

Korneel Rabaey, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2005 - 
- Vol. 23, Iss: 6, pp 291-298
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How bacteria use an anode as an electron acceptor and to what extent they generate electrical output is discussed and the MFC technology is evaluated relative to current alternatives for energy generation.
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This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2005-06-01. It has received 2042 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microbial fuel cell & Exoelectrogen.

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Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology†

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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A state of the art review on microbial fuel cells: A promising technology for wastewater treatment and bioenergy.

TL;DR: A critical review on the recent advances in MFC research with emphases on MFC configurations and performances is presented.
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Conversion of wastes into bioelectricity and chemicals by using microbial electrochemical technologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the key advances that will enable the use of exoelectrogenic microorganisms to generate biofuels, hydrogen gas, methane, and other valuable inorganic and organic chemicals are reviewed.
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Bug juice: harvesting electricity with microorganisms

TL;DR: A new form of microbial respiration has recently been discovered in which microorganisms conserve energy to support growth by oxidizing organic compounds to carbon dioxide with direct quantitative electron transfer to electrodes.
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Graphite Fiber Brush Anodes for Increased Power Production in Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cells

TL;DR: Findings show that brush anodes that have high surface areas and a porous structure can produce high power densities, and therefore have qualities that make them ideal for scaling up MFC systems.
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Brock Biology of Microorganisms

TL;DR: A six-part presentation covers principles of microbiology; evolutionary microbiology and microbial diversity; metabolic diversity and microbial ecology; immunology, pathogenicity, and host responses; microbial diseases; andmicroorganisms as tools for industry and research.
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Fuel cell systems explained

TL;DR: In this paper, the first edition of this paper, the authors presented an analysis of fuel cell systems and their performance in terms of Molar Gibbs Free Energy Calculations (GFE) and Open Circuit Voltage.
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Energy conservation in chemotrophic anaerobic bacteria.

TL;DR: This article corrects the article on p. 100 in vol.
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Electricity production by geobacter sulfurreducens attached to electrodes

TL;DR: The results suggest that the effectiveness of microbial fuel cells can be increased with organisms such as G. sulfurreducens that can attach to electrodes and remain viable for long periods of time while completely oxidizing organic substrates with quantitative transfer of electrons to an electrode.
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Electricity generation using an air-cathode single chamber microbial fuel cell in the presence and absence of a proton exchange membrane.

TL;DR: An analysis based on available anode surface area and maximum bacterial growth rates suggests that mediatorless MFCs may have an upper order-of-magnitude limit in power density of 10(3) mW/m2.
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