Microalgae as native oxygen suppliers in bicameral microbial fuel cells

Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1301-1312

  Cucu, A ^a   Costache, T A ^a   Tiliakos, A ^a   Stamatin, I ^a   Ciocanea, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cathode catalysts; Microalgae; Microbial fuel cell; Power performance

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 84884860418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18423582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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