Challenges and constraints of using oxygen cathodes in microbial fuel cells

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 5193-5199

  Zhao, Feng ^a   Harnisch, Falk ^a   Schröder, Uwe ^a   Scholz, Fritz ^a   Bogdanoff, Peter ^b   Herrmann, Iris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALVANODYANAMIC POLARIZATION; IONIC CONCENTRATIONS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFC); PH GRADIENTS;

CATALYSTS; CATHODES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; OXYGEN;

FUEL CELLS;

BUFFER; COBALT; COBALT TETRAMETHOXYPHENYLPORPHYRIN; ELECTROLYTE; IRON; PHOSPHATE; PHTHALOCYANINE; PLATINUM; PORPHYRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CATALYSTS; CATHODES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FUEL CELLS; OXYGEN;

CATALYSIS; COBALT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; KINETICS; OXYGEN; POLARIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CATALYST; ENERGY YIELD; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN ELECTRODE; PH; POLARIZATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; PYROLYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; CATALYSIS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN;

EID: 33748571739     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060332p     Document Type: Article

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