Role and important properties of a membrane with its recent advancement in a microbial fuel cell

A Banerjee, RK Calay, FE Eregno - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial fuel cells (MFC) are an emerging technology for wastewater treatment that utilizes
the metabolism of microorganisms to generate electricity from the organic matter present in …

Polymer electrolyte membranes for microbial fuel cells: a review

S Das, K Dutta, D Rana - Polymer Reviews, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Development and commercialization of alternative energy harnessing and storing devices
are most necessarily required in today's world. Progressive increase in consumption of …

Deposition of Ni–NiO nanoparticles on the reduced graphene oxide filled polypyrrole: evaluation as cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells

P Pattanayak, F Papiya, N Pramanik… - Sustainable Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we fabricated the in situ polymerization of pyrrole (Py) on reduced graphene oxide
(rGO), formulated as a nanocomposite support matrix for the deposition of nickel–nickel …

1-D semiconducting TiO2 nanotubes supported efficient bimetallic Co-Ni cathode catalysts for power generation in single-chambered air-breathing microbial fuel cells

A Chaturvedi, SK Dhillon, PP Kundu - Sustainable Energy Technologies …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, the synthesis and electrocatalytic behaviour of cobalt (Co) and nickel (Ni)
nanocatalysts supported on TiO 2-nanotubes towards oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in …

Performance evaluation of poly (aniline-co-pyrrole) wrapped titanium dioxide nanocomposite as an air-cathode catalyst material for microbial fuel cell

P Pattanayak, F Papiya, V Kumar, A Singh… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A simple, inexpensive in situ oxidative polymerization of aniline and pyrrole using
ammonium persulfate (APS) as oxidant and hydrochloric acid (HCl) as dopant has been …

Pore size tuning of Nafion membranes by UV irradiation for enhanced proton conductivity for fuel cell applications

AS Rao, KR Rashmi, DV Manjunatha… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The influence of optimal ultraviolet irradiation of Nafion membranes in enhancing proton
conductivity and performance of passive micro-direct methanol fuel cells with silicon micro …

Development of highly efficient bimetallic nanocomposite cathode catalyst, composed of Ni: Co supported sulfonated polyaniline for application in microbial fuel cells

F Papiya, P Pattanayak, P Kumar, V Kumar… - Electrochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
To develop a cost-effective efficient non-noble cathode electrocatalyst with enhanced
oxygen reduction is one of the major concerns in optimizing electrical efficiency in microbial …

Co/Al2O3-rGO nanocomposite as cathode electrocatalyst for superior oxygen reduction in microbial fuel cell applications: The effect of nanocomposite composition

F Papiya, A Nandy, S Mondal, PP Kundu - Electrochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
This study reports the synthesis of non-platinum group metal (non-PGM) catalyst based on
low cost cobalt nanoparticles supported by alumina and reduced graphene oxide (Al 2 O 3 …

Metal-free keratin modified poly (pyrrole-co-aniline)-reduced graphene oxide based nanocomposite materials: A promising cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cell …

P Pattanayak, N Pramanik, F Papiya, V Kumar… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract A metal-free N/S codoped carbon material “keratin” with poly (pyrrole-co-aniline)
and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is used as cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells …

Carbon nanotube/Pt cathode nanocomposite electrode in microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment and bioenergy production

M Ghasemi, M Sedighi, YH Tan - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we reported the fabrication, characterization, and application of carbon
nanotube (CNT)-platinum nanocomposite as a novel generation of cathode catalyst in …