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Improved power and long term performance of microbial fuel cell with Fe-N-C catalyst in air-breathing cathode (2017)
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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.

Towards a self-powered biosensors for environmental applications in remote, off-grid areas (2017)
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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)
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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.

Urine disinfection and in situ pathogen killing using a Microbial Fuel Cell cascade system (2017)
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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)
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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.

Cellular non-linear network model of microbial fuel cell (2017)
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Sirakoulis, G. C., Phillips, N., Tsompanas, M. A., Adamatzky, A., Ieropoulos, I., & Greenman, J. (2017). Cellular non-linear network model of microbial fuel cell. BioSystems, 156-157, 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2017.04.003

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. A cellular non-linear network (CNN) is a uniform regular array of locally connected continuous-state machines, or nodes, which update their states simultaneously in discrete time. A microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an electro-chemica... Read More about Cellular non-linear network model of microbial fuel cell.

Gelatin as a promising printable feedstock for microbial fuel cells (MFC) (2017)
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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).

Self-powered, autonomous Biological Oxygen Demand biosensor for online water quality monitoring (2017)
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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.

Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review (2017)
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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.

Allometric scaling of microbial fuel cells and stacks: The lifeform case for scale-up (2017)
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Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2017). Allometric scaling of microbial fuel cells and stacks: The lifeform case for scale-up. Journal of Power Sources, 356, 365-370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.04.033

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This case study reports for the first time on the comparison between allometric scaling of lifeforms and scale-up of microbial fuel cell entities; enlarging individual units in volume, footprint and electrode surface area but als... Read More about Allometric scaling of microbial fuel cells and stacks: The lifeform case for scale-up.