Microbial fuel cells - Challenges and applications

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 5172-5180

  Logan, Bruce E ^a,b   Regan, John M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

BIOCHEMICAL ENERGY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFC);

FUEL CELLS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARBON FIBER; COBALT; CYTOCHROME C; FERRIC ION; FERRICYANIDE; HYDROGEN; IRON; MANGANESE; METAL OXIDE; NANOWIRE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; POLITEF; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; TITANIUM;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FUEL CELLS; MICROBIOLOGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; MICROORGANISM;

BENTHOS; BIOFILM REACTOR; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; CATION EXCHANGE; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOBACTER; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PACKED BED REACTOR; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW; SCALE UP; SHEWANELLA; SPARGED REACTOR; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33748564008     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0627592     Document Type: Review

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