Bacteria-Affinity 3D Macroporous Graphene/MWCNTs/Fe3O4 Foams for High-Performance Microbial Fuel Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 25, 2016, Pages 16170-16177

  Song, Rong Bin ^a   Zhao, Cui E ^b   Jiang, Li Ping ^a   Abdel Halim, Essam Sayed ^c   Zhang, Jian Rong ^a   Zhu, Jun Jie ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

bioaffinity; electrochemistry; graphene foams; microbial fuel cells; multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ANODES; BACTERIA; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FOAMS; FUEL CELLS; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; GRAPHENE; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOSPHERES; NANOTUBES; YARN;

BIOAFFINITY; ELECTRODE SUBSTRATES; GRAPHENE FOAMS; MACROPOROUS STRUCTURES; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (MFCS); MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (MWCNTS); SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS;

EID: 84976555183     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03425     Document Type: Article

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