Preparation of new anode of microbial fuel cell using Escherichia coli-immobilizing hydrogel

DOI

10.2991/icmmcce-15.2015.46How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Microbial fuel cells; Escherichia coli; Electrically conductive hydrogel; Anode.

Abstract

Despite significant progress in recent years, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) maintain their status as one of the prime unsolved problems in clean energy technology, and their characteristics may not meet the requirements of practical application. Therefore, preparing high-performance anodes is very important for the development in this research field. In this paper, we use electrically conductive hydrogel to embed Escherichia coli and use this polymer to modify carbon paper. A new anode is fabricated, and the maximum output power, output voltage, apparent internal resistance and starting time are tested. The results show that the maximum output power of microbial fuel cell in this paper is 71.47 mW m 2 and apparent resistance is 290.48 , which are significantly better than those from conductive hydrogel-modified anode and carbon paper anode.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dajie Xing
AU  - Hua Wang
AU  - Li Li
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - Preparation of new anode of microbial fuel cell using Escherichia coli-immobilizing hydrogel
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mechatronics, Materials, Chemistry and Computer Engineering 2015
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 228
EP  - 232
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmmcce-15.2015.46
DO  - 10.2991/icmmcce-15.2015.46
ID  - Xing2015/12
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