Bifunctional Manganese Ferrite/Polyaniline Hybrid as Electrode Material for Enhanced Energy Recovery in Microbial Fuel Cell

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 37, 2015, Pages 20657-20666

  Khilari, Santimoy ^a   Pandit, Soumya ^a   Varanasi, Jhansi L ^a   Das, Debabrata ^a   Pradhan, Debabrata ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

anode modifier; composites; green energy; oxygen reduction reaction catalyst; spinel

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CARBON; CATALYSTS; CATHODES; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FERRITE; FUEL CELLS; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLATINUM; PRECIOUS METALS;

EXTRACELLULAR ELECTRON TRANSFER; GREEN ENERGY; HALF-CELL POTENTIAL; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFCS); OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION; SPINEL; SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY; WASTE TO ENERGY CONVERSION;

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

ANILINE DERIVATIVE; FERRIC ION; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; MANGANESE FERRITE; NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN; POLYANILINE; POWDER;

BIOENERGY; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POWDER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; CATALYSIS; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; POWDERS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84942242622     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05273     Document Type: Article

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