Nature Communications, 2018 Hydrogenases are promising alternatives to noble metal-based catalysts for hydrogen oxidation. Here the authors fully protect air-sensitive hydrogenases from high potential and oxygen damage using a polymer multilayer bioanode in a biofuel cell that ...
Adrian Ruff +7 more
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A gas breathing hydrogen/air biofuel cell comprising a redox polymer/hydrogenase-based bioanode
Nature Communications, 2018 Hydrogen is an attractive alternative fuel, but many hydrogen-conversion electrocatalysts contain expensive materials. Here the authors report a dual-gas breathing hydrogen/air biofuel cell comprised of a modified polymer/hydrogenase bioanode and a ...
Julian Szczesny +8 more
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Fabrication and characterization of electrically conducting electrochemically synthesized polypyrrole-based enzymatic biofuel cell anode with biocompatible redox mediator vitamin K3 [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEnzymatic biofuel cells (EBFCs) hold tremendous potential to power biomedical devices, biosensors, and bioelectronics. Unlike conventional toxic batteries, these electrochemical devices are biocompatible, harnessing energy from physiological fluids and ...
Maha Khan, Inamuddin
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Efficient conversion of hemicellulose into high-value product and electric power by enzyme-engineered bacterial consortia [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAs an abundant agricultural and forestry biomass resource, hemicelluloses are hard to be effectively degraded and utilized by microorganisms due to the constraints of membrane and metabolic regulations.
Bo Liang +10 more
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Hydrogen Production in Microbial Electrolysis Cells Using an Alginate Hydrogel Bioanode Encapsulated with a Filter Bag. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)The bacterial anode of microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) is the limiting factor in a high hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). This study focused on improving biofilm attachment to a carbon-cloth anode using an alginate hydrogel.
Hirsch LO +6 more
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Surfactant-Free Formate/O2 Biofuel Cell with Electropolymerized Phenothiazine Derivative-Modified Enzymatic Bioanode. [PDF]
ACS Appl Bio Mater, 2023 A formate (HCOO–) bioanode was developed by utilizing a phenothiazine-based electropolymerized layer deposited on sucrose-derived carbon. The electrode modified with NAD-dependent formate dehydrogenase and the electropolymerized layer synergistically ...
Kosugi M, Tatara R, Fujii Y, Komaba S.
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Study of a Pilot Scale Microbial Electrosynthesis Reactor for Organic Waste Biorefinery
Energies, 2023 Microbial electrochemical technologies now enable microbial electrosynthesis (MES) of organic compounds using microbial electrolysis cells handling waste organic materials.
Jiang-Hao Tian +6 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 In single-chamber microbial electrolysis cells (MECs), organic compounds are oxidized at the anode, liberating electrons that are used for hydrogen evolution at the cathode.
Marie Abadikhah +5 more
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Devilfish bone char, an alternative material to be used as bioanode in microbial fuel cells
Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 This work aimed to evaluate the devilfish bone char as an alternative material to be used as a bioanode in a microbial fuel cell (MFC) applied in bioenergy production from the pantoprazole biodegradation.
Miguel Mauricio Aguilera Flores +4 more
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Journal of Chemistry, 2022 In this work, electroactive biofilms of Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis) or Escherichia coli (E. coli) were supported on functionalized biocarbon (AB7-F), which was synthesized from waste leather and was used as catalysts to develop bioanodes for ...
Ivonne L. Alonso-Lemus +7 more
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