Energy harvesting from organic liquids in micro-sized microbial fuel cells

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Mink, Justine E ^a   Qaisi, Ramy M ^a   Logan, Bruce E ^b   Hussain, Muhammad M ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphene; Microbial fuel cell; Saliva

Indexed keywords

CURRENT GENERATION; FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH ORGANIC LOADING; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFCS); POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSTICS; SALIVA;

ENERGY HARVESTING; EQUIPMENT TESTING; GRAPHENE; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 84898075363     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2014.1     Document Type: Article

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