Nano-structured manganese oxide as a cathodic catalyst for enhanced oxygen reduction in a microbial fuel cell fed with a synthetic wastewater

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 5298-5305

  Liu, Xian Wei ^a   Sun, Xue Fei ^b   Huang, Yu Xi ^a   Sheng, Guo Ping ^a   Zhou, Kang ^a   Zeng, Raymond J ^a   Dong, Fang ^a   Wang, Shu Guang ^b   Xu, An Wu ^c   Tong, Zhong Hua ^a   Yu, Han Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Electrochemistry; Manganese oxides; Microbial fuel cell (MFC); Nanostructure; Oxygen reduction; Synthetic wastewater

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYTIC OXIDATION; CATHODES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COST EFFECTIVENESS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; MANGANESE OXIDE; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCATALYSTS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDES; OXYGEN; RECLAMATION; SYNTHETIC FUELS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION METHODS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PREPARATION; ELECTROCHEMICALLY DEPOSITION; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFCS); OXYGEN REDUCTION; OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SYNTHETIC WASTE WATER;

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

ACETIC ACID; MANGANESE OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; OXYGEN;

CATALYST; COMMERCIALIZATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FUEL CELL; MANGANESE OXIDE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PH; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77957354595     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.06.065     Document Type: Article

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