Progress on anodic modification materials and future development directions in microbial fuel cells

J Ma, J Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Guo, T Hu, H Xiao… - Journal of Power …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs), as a promising sustainable bioelectrochemical energy
technology for simultaneous wastewater recycling and treatments while generating …

Recent progress in microbial fuel cells using substrates from diverse sources

JM Sonawane, R Mahadevan, A Pandey, J Greener - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Increasing untreated environmental outputs from industry and the rising human population
have increased the burden of wastewater and other waste streams on the environment. The …

Microfluidic membraneless microbial fuel cells: new protocols for record power densities

N Khodaparastasgarabad, JM Sonawane… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The main hurdle in leveraging microfluidic advantages in membraneless MFCs is their low
electrode area-normalized power. For nearly a decade, maximum power densities have …

[HTML][HTML] Multiparameter optimization of microbial fuel cell outputs using linear sweep voltammetry and microfluidics

JM Sonawane, J Greener - Journal of Power Sources, 2024 - Elsevier
A microbial fuel cell with a mature pure-culture Geobacter sulfurreducens electroactive
biofilm was used for performance optimization by making rapid changes to experimental …

[HTML][HTML] A microfluidic study of acetate conversion kinetics in a microbial electrolysis cell: The role of age, concentration and flow on biofilm permeability

N Khodaparastasgarabad, M Couture… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2024 - Elsevier
This work addresses the need for kinetic studies to identify potentially exploitable
mechanisms involved in generating current from flow-based bioelectrochemical systems …

Developing a self-powered microfluidic microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) for converting oxalate into hydrogen

MY Gele, ASS Kachooei, S Yaghmaei… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study investigated the capability of coupled microfluidic microbial electrolysis
cell-microbial fuel cell (MEC-MFC) to remove oxalate as a toxic end-metabolite and produce …

A new angle to control concentration profiles at electroactive biofilm interfaces: Investigating a microfluidic perpendicular flow approach

L Gong, N Khodaparastasgarabad, DM Hall… - Electrochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
To meet the growing interest in bioelectrochemical flow systems, we propose a new
microfluidic-based approach to studying electroactive biofilms (EABs). Despite the near …

A spectIR-fluidic reactor for monitoring fast chemical reaction kinetics with on-chip attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

N Jia, LT de Oliveira, A Bégin-Drolet, J Greener - Analytical Methods, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics has emerged as a powerful technology with diverse applications in
microbiology, medicine, chemistry, and physics. While its potential for controlling and …

Microflow sensing and control using an in-channel birefringent biomembrane

N Jia, T Deng, C Larouche, T Galstian, A Bégin-Drolet… - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
This study describes the function, optimization, and demonstration of a new class of passive,
low-cost microfluidic flow meters based on birefringent chitosan biomembranes analyzed by …

Enhancing the biological hydrogen production in a novel way of using co-substrates

C Mumtha, J Kabiriyel, PU Mahalingam - Waste Disposal & Sustainable …, 2023 - Springer
Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is a potential technology to meet the increasing interest in
finding new sources of energy that will not harm the environment. MEC is an alternative …