Microbial fuel cells: Scalability and their use in robotics

Greenman, John; Ieropoulos, Ioannis; Melhuish, Chris

Abstract

This is probably the first written and relatively accurate description of microorganisms, made by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.). It was then Anthony van Leeuwenhoek (ca. 1677) who, for the first time, observed little animals under his version of the microscope (a collection of powerful magnifying glasses), and who in a letter to the Royal Society (1683) gave for the first time a description of dental plaque as the first example of what we would now term a microbial biofilm.

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 239-290
• Series Title: Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry
• Series Number: 52
• Book Title: Applications of Electrochemistry and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine I
• ISBN: 978-1-4614-0346-3
• Keywords: electrochemistry, nanotechnology, biomedicine general
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/968676
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0347-0_3