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Studies on Microbial Fuel Cells with Modified MWNTs Anode Materials

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2015.17379
Juan Wang
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Ecological Diagnosis-Remediation and Pollution Control, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, P.R. China; College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
Hui Xiong
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Ecological Diagnosis-Remediation and Pollution Control, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, P.R. China
Zhensheng Xiong
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Ecological Diagnosis-Remediation and Pollution Control, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, P.R. China
Fangcheng Xu
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P.R. China
Jing Fang
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Ecological Diagnosis-Remediation and Pollution Control, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, P.R. China
Fuming Liu
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Ecological Diagnosis-Remediation and Pollution Control, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, P.R. China
Yun Ling
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Ecological Diagnosis-Remediation and Pollution Control, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, P.R. China
Jianfei Pan
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Ecological Diagnosis-Remediation and Pollution Control, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, P.R. China
Yu Xie
Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Ecological Diagnosis-Remediation and Pollution Control, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, P.R. China

Corresponding Author(s) : Fangcheng Xu

fcxu@xmu.edu.cn

Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 27 No. 5 (2015): Vol 27 Issue 5

Abstract

The marine exoelectrons S. marisflavi EP1 were intertidal sediments that taken from a marine surface of Xiamen Baicheng Sea. This study examined the electricity production performance of three different anode materials in microbial fuel cells i.e., graphite, multi-walled carbon nanotubes and the esterified multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The results showed that the produced maximum voltage of the above three anode materials were 0.5282 V, 0.4329 V and 0.3123 V, respectively, along with the maximum power densities were 341.6, 241.1 and 151.4 mW/cm2. The maximum power density to use the esterified multi-walled carbon nanotubes as the microbial fuel cell anode was 1.25 times as that of graphite. The growth of bacteria on the surface of the esterified multi-walled carbon nanotubes is faster than that on the surface of the graphite anode. It indicates that esterified multi-walled carbon nanotubes modified anode can significantly increased the electricity production of extracellular electronic metabolic capacity, so as to improve producing electrical properties of the microbial fuel cell.

Keywords

Marine exoelectrogen Microbial fuel cells Esterification Multi-walled carbon nanotubes Anode modification
Wang, J., Xiong, H., Xiong, Z., Xu, F., Fang, J., Liu, F., … Xie, Y. (2015). Studies on Microbial Fuel Cells with Modified MWNTs Anode Materials. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 27(5), 1584–1588. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2015.17379
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