Supercapacitive microbial desalination cells: New class of power generating devices for reduction of salinity content (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Soavi, F., Howe, K. J., Kodali, M., Serov, A., Abad, F. B., & Santoro, C. (2017). Supercapacitive microbial desalination cells: New class of power generating devices for reduction of salinity content. Applied Energy, 208, 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.10.056

© 2017 The Author(s) In this work, the electrodes of a microbial desalination cell (MDC) are investigated as the positive and negative electrodes of an internal supercapacitor. The resulting system has been named a supercapacitive microbial desalinat... Read More about Supercapacitive microbial desalination cells: New class of power generating devices for reduction of salinity content.

Microbial desalination cells with efficient platinum-group-metal-free cathode catalysts (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Ieropoulos, I., Merino-Jimenez, I., Serov, A., Gokhale, R., Kodali, M., …Santoro, C. (2017). Microbial desalination cells with efficient platinum-group-metal-free cathode catalysts. ChemElectroChem, 4(12), 3322-3330. https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201700626

© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. An iron-nitrogen-carbon-based catalyst was used at the cathode of a microbial desalination cell (MDC) and compared with platinum (Pt) and an activated carbon (AC) cathode. The Fe-N−C catalyst was p... Read More about Microbial desalination cells with efficient platinum-group-metal-free cathode catalysts.

Improved power and long term performance of microbial fuel cell with Fe-N-C catalyst in air-breathing cathode (2017)
Journal Article
Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Santoro, C., Serov, A., Melhuish, C., Atanassov, P., & Ieropoulos, I. (2018). Improved power and long term performance of microbial fuel cell with Fe-N-C catalyst in air-breathing cathode. Energy, 144, 1073-1079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.11.135

© 2017 Power output limitation is one of the main challenges that needs to be addressed for full-scale applications of the Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology. Previous studies have examined electrochemical performance of different cathode electrode... Read More about Improved power and long term performance of microbial fuel cell with Fe-N-C catalyst in air-breathing cathode.

Influence of platinum group metal-free catalyst synthesis on microbial fuel cell performance (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Serov, A., Kodali, M., Gokhale, R., Awais, R., …Santoro, C. (2018). Influence of platinum group metal-free catalyst synthesis on microbial fuel cell performance. Journal of Power Sources, 375, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.11.039

© 2017 The Authors Platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) ORR catalysts from the Fe-N-C family were synthesized using sacrificial support method (SSM) technique. Six experimental steps were used during the synthesis: 1) mixing the precursor, the metal... Read More about Influence of platinum group metal-free catalyst synthesis on microbial fuel cell performance.

EvoBot: Towards a robot-chemostat for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Theodosiou, P., Faina, A., Nejatimoharrami, F., Stoy, K., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). EvoBot: Towards a robot-chemostat for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). In N. Lepora, T. Prescott, P. F. Verschure, A. Mura, M. Cutkosky, & M. Mangan (Eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. , (453-464). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_38

In this paper we present EvoBot, a RepRap open-source 3D-printer modified to operate like a robot for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). EvoBot is a modular liquid handling robot that has been adapted to host MFCs in its experimen... Read More about EvoBot: Towards a robot-chemostat for culturing and maintaining Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs).

Towards a self-powered biosensors for environmental applications in remote, off-grid areas (2017)
Journal Article
Pasternak, G., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Towards a self-powered biosensors for environmental applications in remote, off-grid areas. Procedia Technology, 27, 8-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.005

One important factor for developing biosensors is taking the source of electrical energy into account. The source of electricity is needed whenever we consider point-of-care diagnostics, in-vivo tests or in particular – environmental applications. Th... Read More about Towards a self-powered biosensors for environmental applications in remote, off-grid areas.

Electricity production from human urine in ceramic microbial fuel cells with alternative non-fluorinated polymer binders for cathode construction (2017)
Journal Article
Salar-Garcia, M. J., Ortiz-Martinez, V., Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Hernández-Fernández, F. J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Electricity production from human urine in ceramic microbial fuel cells with alternative non-fluorinated polymer binders for cathode construction. Separation and Purification Technology, 187, 436-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2017.06.025

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is one of the most common binders employed to prepare cathode electrodes in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and yet this fluorinated polymer is neither sustainable nor environmentally friendly. In this... Read More about Electricity production from human urine in ceramic microbial fuel cells with alternative non-fluorinated polymer binders for cathode construction.

A family of Fe-N-C oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for microbial fuel cell (MFC) application: Relationships between surface chemistry and performances (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Gordon, J., Stariha, L., Rojas-Carbonell, S., Gokhale, R., …Santoro, C. (2017). A family of Fe-N-C oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for microbial fuel cell (MFC) application: Relationships between surface chemistry and performances. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 205, 24-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.12.013

© 2016 The Author(s) Different iron-based cathode catalysts have been studied for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in neutral media and then applied into microbial fuel cells (MFC). The catalysts have been synthesized using sacrificial support method... Read More about A family of Fe-N-C oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for microbial fuel cell (MFC) application: Relationships between surface chemistry and performances.

Urine disinfection and in situ pathogen killing using a Microbial Fuel Cell cascade system (2017)
Journal Article
Ieropoulos, I., Pasternak, G., & Greenman, J. (2017). Urine disinfection and in situ pathogen killing using a Microbial Fuel Cell cascade system. PLoS ONE, 12(5), e0176475. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176475

© 2017 Ieropoulos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are... Read More about Urine disinfection and in situ pathogen killing using a Microbial Fuel Cell cascade system.

Towards implementation of cellular automata in Microbial Fuel Cells (2017)
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Sirakoulis, G. C., Tsompanas, M. A., Adamatzky, A., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Towards implementation of cellular automata in Microbial Fuel Cells. PLoS ONE, 12(5), e0177528. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177528

© 2017 Tsompanas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are... Read More about Towards implementation of cellular automata in Microbial Fuel Cells.

Special section: “Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications”: Guest editors' note (2017)
Journal Article
Santoro, C., Arbizzani, C., Erable, B., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Special section: “Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications”: Guest editors' note. Journal of Power Sources, 356, 223-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.04.071

The Special Section “Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications” covers many diverse and multidisciplinary aspects of the entire microbial electrochemical field, with a special emphasis on microbial and abiotic/microbial electron transfe... Read More about Special section: “Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications”: Guest editors' note.

Air Breathing Cathodes for Microbial Fuel Cell using Mn-, Fe-, Co- and Ni-containing Platinum Group Metal-free Catalysts (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Matanovic, I., Artyushkova, K., Kabir, S., Serov, A., Kodali, M., & Santoro, C. (2017). Air Breathing Cathodes for Microbial Fuel Cell using Mn-, Fe-, Co- and Ni-containing Platinum Group Metal-free Catalysts. Electrochimica Acta, 231, 115-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2017.02.033

© 2017 The Authors The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is one of the major factors that is limiting the overall performance output of microbial fuel cells (MFC). In this study, Platinum Group Metal-free (PGM-free) ORR catalysts based on Fe, Co, Ni, M... Read More about Air Breathing Cathodes for Microbial Fuel Cell using Mn-, Fe-, Co- and Ni-containing Platinum Group Metal-free Catalysts.

Electrocatalyst Design for Direct Borohydride Oxidation Guided by First Principles (2017)
Journal Article
Janik, M. J., Rostamikia, G., Patel, R. J., Merino-Jimenez, I., & Hickner, M. (2017). Electrocatalyst Design for Direct Borohydride Oxidation Guided by First Principles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121(5), 2872-2881. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b12159

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are used to propose a Au-Cu binary metal catalyst for the electrochemical borohydride oxidation reaction (BOR), which is evaluated experimentally and observed to show enh... Read More about Electrocatalyst Design for Direct Borohydride Oxidation Guided by First Principles.

Transition metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in neutral electrolyte (2017)
Journal Article
Serov, A., Rojas-Carbonell, S., Atanassov, P., & Santoro, C. (2017). Transition metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in neutral electrolyte. Electrochemistry Communications, 75, 38-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2016.12.011

© 2016 The Authors Platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts based on M-N-C types of materials with M as Mn, Fe, Co and Ni and aminoantipyrine (AAPyr) as N-C precursors were synthesized using sacrificial support method. Catalysts kinetics of oxy... Read More about Transition metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in neutral electrolyte.

Gelatin as a promising printable feedstock for microbial fuel cells (MFC) (2017)
Journal Article
Ieropoulos, I., Theodosiou, P., Taylor, B., Greenman, J., & Melhuish, C. (2017). Gelatin as a promising printable feedstock for microbial fuel cells (MFC). International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42(3), 1783-1790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.11.083

© 2016 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an energy transducer that can directly produce electricity from bacterial oxidation of organic matter. MFCs consist of two reaction chambers (anode and cathode) separated by a s... Read More about Gelatin as a promising printable feedstock for microbial fuel cells (MFC).

High performance platinum group metal-free cathode catalysts for microbial fuel cell (MFC) (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Gokhale, R., Kodali, M., Serov, A., & Santoro, C. (2017). High performance platinum group metal-free cathode catalysts for microbial fuel cell (MFC). Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164(3), H3041-H3046. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0061703jes

© The Author(s) 2016. The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at the cathode is usually the limiting step in microbial fuel cells and improvements have to be done to increase the performances and reduce the cost. For the first time, iron-based catalysts... Read More about High performance platinum group metal-free cathode catalysts for microbial fuel cell (MFC).

Integration of Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts and Bilirubin Oxidase into a Hybrid Material for Oxygen Reduction: Interplay of Chemistry and Morphology (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Calabrese Barton, S., Mirabal, A., Workman, M. J., Artyushkova, K., Serov, A., …Santoro, C. (2017). Integration of Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts and Bilirubin Oxidase into a Hybrid Material for Oxygen Reduction: Interplay of Chemistry and Morphology. ChemSusChem, 10(7), 1534-1542. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201601822

© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Catalytic activity toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of platinum group metal-free (PGM-free) electrocatalysts integrated with an enzyme (bilirubin oxidase, BOx) in neutral media was studied... Read More about Integration of Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts and Bilirubin Oxidase into a Hybrid Material for Oxygen Reduction: Interplay of Chemistry and Morphology.

Self-powered, autonomous Biological Oxygen Demand biosensor for online water quality monitoring (2017)
Journal Article
Pasternak, G., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Self-powered, autonomous Biological Oxygen Demand biosensor for online water quality monitoring. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 244, 815-822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2017.01.019

© 2017 The Authors Standard Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) analysis requires 5days to complete. To date, microbial fuel cell biosensors used as an alternative method for BOD assessment requires external apparatus, which limits their use for on-line m... Read More about Self-powered, autonomous Biological Oxygen Demand biosensor for online water quality monitoring.

Design of iron(II) phthalocyanine-derived oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for high-power-density microbial fuel cells (2017)
Journal Article
Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Serov, A., Licoccia, S., D'Epifanio, A., Mecheri, B., …Santoro, C. (2017). Design of iron(II) phthalocyanine-derived oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for high-power-density microbial fuel cells. ChemSusChem, 10(16), 3243-3251. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201700851

© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Iron(II) phthalocyanine (FePc) deposited onto two different carbonaceous supports was synthesized through an unconventional pyrolysis-free method. The obtained materials were studied in the oxygen r... Read More about Design of iron(II) phthalocyanine-derived oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for high-power-density microbial fuel cells.

Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review (2017)
Journal Article
Santoro, C., Arbizzani, C., Erable, B., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review. Journal of Power Sources, 356, 225-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.03.109

© 2017 The Author(s) In the past 10–15 years, the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has captured the attention of the scientific community for the possibility of transforming organic waste directly into electricity through microbially catalyzed an... Read More about Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review.