Oxygen reduction reaction catalysts used in microbial fuel cells for energy-efficient wastewater treatment: a review

H Yuan, Y Hou, IM Abu-Reesh, J Chen, Z He - Materials Horizons, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as an energy-efficient wastewater treatment technology have
attracted increasing interest in the past decade. Cathode catalysts for the oxygen reduction …

Recent progress in electrodes for microbial fuel cells

J Wei, P Liang, X Huang - Bioresource technology, 2011 - Elsevier
The performance and cost of electrodes are the most important aspects in the design of
microbial fuel cell (MFC) reactors. A wide range of electrode materials and configurations …

Perovskite oxide based electrodes for the oxygen reduction and evolution reactions: the underlying mechanism

CE Beall, E Fabbri, TJ Schmidt - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
One hindrance to the development of fuel cells and electrolyzers are the oxygen electrodes,
which suffer from high overpotentials and slow kinetics. Perovskite oxides have been shown …

Anion-exchange membranes in electrochemical energy systems

JR Varcoe, P Atanassov, DR Dekel… - Energy & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This article provides an up-to-date perspective on the use of anion-exchange membranes in
fuel cells, electrolysers, redox flow batteries, reverse electrodialysis cells, and …

An overview of electrode materials in microbial fuel cells

M Zhou, M Chi, J Luo, H He, T Jin - Journal of Power Sources, 2011 - Elsevier
Electrode materials play an important role in the performance (eg, power output) and cost of
microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use bacteria as the catalysts to oxidize organic (inorganic) …

A review on carbon and non-precious metal based cathode catalysts in microbial fuel cells

SG Peera, T Maiyalagan, C Liu, S Ashmath… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells, an emerging technology has been paid a great attention in recent years,
due to its unique advantages in treating wastewater to portable water, together with the …

Waste-derived biochar: applications and future perspective in microbial fuel cells

I Chakraborty, SM Sathe, BK Dubey… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Application of microbial fuel cell (MFC) is coming to the forefront as a dual-purpose system
for wastewater treatment and energy recovery. Future research should emphasize on …

Electroluminescence from graphene quantum dots prepared by amidative cutting of tattered graphite

W Kwon, YH Kim, CL Lee, M Lee, HC Choi, TW Lee… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Size-controlled graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are prepared via amidative cutting of
tattered graphite. The power of this method is that the size of the GQDs could be varied from …

From MFC to MXC: chemical and biological cathodes and their potential for microbial bioelectrochemical systems

F Harnisch, U Schröder - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial fuel cells (MFC) are the archetype microbial bioelectrochemical system (BES),
producing electricity from microbially catalyzed anodic oxidation processes. The greatest …

Recent progress and perspectives in microbial fuel cells for bioenergy generation and wastewater treatment

FJ Hernández-Fernández, AP De Los Ríos… - Fuel Processing …, 2015 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use bacteria to convert the chemical energy of a particular
substrate contained in wastewater into electrical energy. This is achieved when bacteria …