The correlation of the anodic and cathodic open circuit potential (OCP) and power generation in microbial fuel cells (MFCs)

ECS Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 45-53

  Santoro, Carlo ^a,b   Agrios, Alexander G ^a,b   Li, Baikun ^a,b   Cristiani, Pierangela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

^c RICERCA SUL SISTEMA ENERGETICO RSE S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODE AREA; CATHODIC PROCESS; CIRCUIT POTENTIALS; MEMBRANELESS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFCS); OPEN CIRCUIT POTENTIAL; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; SINGLE CHAMBERS;

ANODES; EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

CATHODES;

EID: 84872002377     PISSN: 19385862     EISSN: 19386737     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1149/1.3687390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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