Tackling the challenges of enzymatic (bio) fuel cells

X Xiao, H Xia, R Wu, L Bai, L Yan, E Magner… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The ever-increasing demands for clean and sustainable energy sources combined with
rapid advances in biointegrated portable or implantable electronic devices have stimulated …

O2 Reduction in Enzymatic Biofuel Cells

N Mano, A de Poulpiquet - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Catalytic four-electron reduction of O2 to water is one of the most extensively studied
electrochemical reactions due to O2 exceptional availability and high O2/H2O redox …

Electrografting: a powerful method for surface modification

D Belanger, J Pinson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrografting refers to the electrochemical reaction that permits organic layers to be
attached to solid conducting substrates. This definition can be extended to reactions …

Molecular electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

S Dey, B Mondal, S Chatterjee, A Rana… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has seen considerable growth in the development of materials for fuel cell
electrodes, and there is a desire for active electrocatalysts derived from base metals instead …

Enzymatic fuel cells: Recent progress

D Leech, P Kavanagh, W Schuhmann - Electrochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
There is an increasing interest in replacing non-selective metal catalysts, currently used in
low temperature fuel cells, with enzymes as catalysts. Specific oxidation of fuel and oxidant …

Direct electrochemistry of redox enzymes as a tool for mechanistic studies

C Léger, P Bertrand - Chemical Reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
This review regards the use of dynamic electrochemistry to study the mechanism of redox
enzymes, with exclusive emphasis on the configuration where the protein is adsorbed onto …

Reversibility and efficiency in electrocatalytic energy conversion and lessons from enzymes

FA Armstrong, J Hirst - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Enzymes are long established as extremely efficient catalysts. Here, we show that enzymes
can also be extremely efficient electro catalysts (catalysts of redox reactions at electrodes) …

Enzyme-based biosensors: Tackling electron transfer issues

P Bollella, E Katz - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the fundamentals of the phenomenon of electron transfer (ET)
reactions occurring in redox enzymes that were widely employed for the development of …

Direct enzymatic bioelectrocatalysis: differentiating between myth and reality

RD Milton, SD Minteer - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Enzymatic bioelectrocatalysis is being increasingly exploited to better understand
oxidoreductase enzymes, to develop minimalistic yet specific biosensor platforms, and to …

Bioinspired copper catalyst effective for both reduction and evolution of oxygen

J Wang, K Wang, FB Wang, XH Xia - Nature Communications, 2014 - nature.com
In many green electrochemical energy devices, the conversion between oxygen and water
suffers from high potential loss due to the difficulty in decreasing activation energy …