Miniaturized biological and electrochemical fuel cells: Challenges and applications

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 34, 2013, Pages 14147-14161

  Yang, Jie ^a   Ghobadian, Sasan ^b   Goodrich, Payton J ^a   Montazami, Reza ^a   Hashemi, Nastaran ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

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EID: 84881467276     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3cp50804h     Document Type: Review

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