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Recent progress in electrodes for microbial fuel cells.

Jincheng Wei, +2 more
- 01 Oct 2011 - 
- Vol. 102, Iss: 20, pp 9335-9344
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A review of recent advances in electrode material and a configuration of both the anode and cathode in MFCs are provided and the modification methods for the anodic electrode are summarized.
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This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 736 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microbial fuel cell & Chemically modified electrode.

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Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review

TL;DR: The development of the concept of microbial fuel cell into a wider range of derivative technologies, called bioelectrochemical systems, is described, introducing briefly microbial electrolysis cells, microbial desalination cells and microbial electrosynthesis cells.
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A comprehensive review of microbial electrochemical systems as a platform technology.

TL;DR: This article provides a comprehensive and quantitative review of all the different functions or system constructions with different acronyms developed so far from the MES platform and summarizes nearly 50 corresponding systems to date.
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Recent advances in the use of different substrates in microbial fuel cells toward wastewater treatment and simultaneous energy recovery

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of different types (designs) of MFCs in terms of electric current and power outputs together with the wastewater treatment efficiency, including chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal and columbic efficiency (CE), is presented.
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Microbial fuel cell as new technology for bioelectricity generation: A review

TL;DR: In this paper, different parts of microbial fuel cells (MFC) such as anode, cathode and membrane have been reviewed and to overcome the practical challenges in this field some practical options have been suggested.
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Microbial fuel cells: An overview of current technology

TL;DR: A review of the current field and knowledge in regards to MFCs and the known mechanisms underpinning MFC technology, which allows bacteria to facilitate in electron transfer processes is given in this article.
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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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Exoelectrogenic bacteria that power microbial fuel cells

TL;DR: This Progress article explores the underlying reasons for exocellular electron transfer, including cellular respiration and possible cell–cell communication, to understand bacterial versatility in mechanisms used for current generation.
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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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Electricity generation by direct oxidation of glucose in mediatorless microbial fuel cells

TL;DR: A novel microorganism is reported on, Rhodoferax ferrireducens, that can oxidize glucose to CO2 and quantitatively transfer electrons to graphite electrodes without the need for an electron-shuttling mediator, which results in stable, long-term power production.
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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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