- Integrated Microfluidic Flow-Through Microbial Fuel Cells.
Integrated Microfluidic Flow-Through Microbial Fuel Cells.
Scientific reports (2017-01-26)
Huawei Jiang, Md Azahar Ali, Zhen Xu, Larry J Halverson, Liang Dong
PMID28120875
ABSTRACT
This paper reports on a miniaturized microbial fuel cell with a microfluidic flow-through configuration: a porous anolyte chamber is formed by filling a microfluidic chamber with three-dimensional graphene foam as anode, allowing nutritional medium to flow through the chamber to intimately interact with the colonized microbes on the scaffolds of the anode. No nutritional media flow over the anode. This allows sustaining high levels of nutrient utilization, minimizing consumption of nutritional substrates, and reducing response time of electricity generation owing to fast mass transport through pressure-driven flow and rapid diffusion of nutrients within the anode. The device provides a volume power density of 745 μW/cm
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Isobornyl acrylate, technical grade, contains 200 ppm monomethyl ether hydroquinone as inhibitor