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Sub-toxic concentrations of volatile organic compounds inhibit extracellular respiration of Escherichia coli cells grown in anodic bioelectrochemical systems (2016)
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Marsili, E., Lauro, F. M., Hinks, J., Palanisamy, K., Seviour, T., Grasso, L. L., …Santoro, C. (2016). Sub-toxic concentrations of volatile organic compounds inhibit extracellular respiration of Escherichia coli cells grown in anodic bioelectrochemical systems. Bioelectrochemistry, 112, 173-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2016.02.003

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Low-cost and rapid detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is important for the control of water quality of used water and protection of downstream used water treatment processes. In this work, the effect of sub-toxic conc... Read More about Sub-toxic concentrations of volatile organic compounds inhibit extracellular respiration of Escherichia coli cells grown in anodic bioelectrochemical systems.

Co-generation of hydrogen and power/current pulses from supercapacitive MFCs using novel HER iron-based catalysts (2016)
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Atanassov, P., Carpenter, K., Kabir, S., Serov, A., Arbizzani, C., Soavi, F., …Santoro, C. (2016). Co-generation of hydrogen and power/current pulses from supercapacitive MFCs using novel HER iron-based catalysts. Electrochimica Acta, 220, 672-682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2016.10.154

© 2016 The Author(s) In this work, four different supercapacitive microbial fuel cells (SC-MFCs) with carbon brush as the anode and an air-breathing cathode with Fe-Aminoantipyrine (Fe-AAPyr) as the catalyst have been investigated using galvanostatic... Read More about Co-generation of hydrogen and power/current pulses from supercapacitive MFCs using novel HER iron-based catalysts.

Miniaturized supercapacitors: key materials and structures towards autonomous and sustainable devices and systems (2016)
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Arbizzani, C., Atanassov, P., Milani, P., Piseri, P., Bettini, L. G., Soavi, F., & Santoro, C. (2016). Miniaturized supercapacitors: key materials and structures towards autonomous and sustainable devices and systems. Journal of Power Sources, 326, 717-725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.04.131

© 2016 The Authors Supercapacitors (SCs) are playing a key role for the development of self-powered and self-sustaining integrated systems for different fields ranging from remote sensing, robotics and medical devices. SC miniaturization and integrat... Read More about Miniaturized supercapacitors: key materials and structures towards autonomous and sustainable devices and systems.

Anodic biofilms as the interphase for electroactive bacterial growth on carbon veil (2016)
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Marsili, E., Atanassov, P., Mohidin, A. F., Doyle, L. E., Roizman, D., Artyushkova, K., & Santoro, C. (2016). Anodic biofilms as the interphase for electroactive bacterial growth on carbon veil. Biointerphases, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1116/1.4962264

© 2016 American Vacuum Society. The structure and activity of electrochemically active biofilms (EABs) are usually investigated on flat electrodes. However, real world applications such as wastewater treatment and bioelectrosynthesis require tridimen... Read More about Anodic biofilms as the interphase for electroactive bacterial growth on carbon veil.

Carbon-based air-breathing cathodes for microbial fuel cells (2016)
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Merino-Jimenez, I., Santoro, C., Rojas-Carbonell, S., Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I., & Atanassov, P. (2016). Carbon-based air-breathing cathodes for microbial fuel cells. Catalysts, 6(9), 127. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal6090127

© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. A comparison between different carbon-based gas-diffusion air-breathing cathodes for microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is presented in this work. A micro-porous layer (MPL) based on carbon black (CB... Read More about Carbon-based air-breathing cathodes for microbial fuel cells.

Iron based catalysts from novel low-cost organic precursors for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction in neutral media microbial fuel cells (2016)
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Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Bretschger, O., Babanova, S., Gordon, J., Kodali, M., …Santoro, C. (2016). Iron based catalysts from novel low-cost organic precursors for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction in neutral media microbial fuel cells. Energy and Environmental Science, 9(7), 2346-2353. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ee01145d

© 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Two iron-based platinum group metal-free catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) were synthesized from novel and low cost organic precursors named niclosamide and ricobendazole. These catalysts have be... Read More about Iron based catalysts from novel low-cost organic precursors for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction in neutral media microbial fuel cells.

Self-feeding paper based biofuel cell/self-powered hybrid μ-supercapacitor integrated system (2016)
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Narvaez Villarrubia, C. W., Soavi, F., Santoro, C., Arbizzani, C., Serov, A., Rojas-Carbonell, S., …Atanassov, P. (2016). Self-feeding paper based biofuel cell/self-powered hybrid μ-supercapacitor integrated system. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 86, 459-465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2016.06.084

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. For the first time, a paper based enzymatic fuel cell is used as self-recharged supercapacitor. In this supercapacitive enzymatic fuel cell (SC-EFC), the supercapacitive features of the electrodes are exploited to demonstrate hig... Read More about Self-feeding paper based biofuel cell/self-powered hybrid μ-supercapacitor integrated system.

Supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: Characterization and analysis for improved charge storage/delivery performance (2016)
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Houghton, J., Santoro, C., Soavi, F., Serov, A., Ieropoulos, I., Arbizzani, C., & Atanassov, P. (2016). Supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: Characterization and analysis for improved charge storage/delivery performance. Bioresource Technology, 218, 552-560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.06.105

© 2016 The Author(s) Supercapacitive microbial fuel cells with various anode and cathode dimensions were investigated in order to determine the effect on cell capacitance and delivered power quality. The cathode size was shown to be the limiting comp... Read More about Supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: Characterization and analysis for improved charge storage/delivery performance.

Morphological Characterization of ALD and Doping Effects on Mesoporous SnO2 Aerogels by XPS and Quantitative SEM Image Analysis (2016)
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Agrios, A. G., Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Correa-Baena, J. P., & Santoro, C. (2016). Morphological Characterization of ALD and Doping Effects on Mesoporous SnO2 Aerogels by XPS and Quantitative SEM Image Analysis. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8(15), 9849-9854. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b00019

© 2016 American Chemical Society. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is unsurpassed in its ability to create thin conformal coatings over very rough and/or porous materials. Yet although the coating thickness on flat surfaces can be measured by ellipsomet... Read More about Morphological Characterization of ALD and Doping Effects on Mesoporous SnO2 Aerogels by XPS and Quantitative SEM Image Analysis.

Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power (2016)
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Atanassov, P., Arbizzani, C., Serov, A., Soavi, F., & Santoro, C. (2016). Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 78, 229-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2015.11.026

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. In this work, for the first time, we demonstrate a supercapacitive microbial fuel cell which integrates the energy harvesting function of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) with the high-power operation of an internal supercapacitor. Th... Read More about Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power.

Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration (2016)
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Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration. Bioresource Technology, 215, 285-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.004

© 2016 The Authors. This work reports on the novel formation of caustic potash (KOH) directly on the MFC cathode locking carbon dioxide into potassium bicarbonate salt (kalicinite) while producing, instead of consuming electrical power. Using potassi... Read More about Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration.

Bilirubin oxidase based enzymatic air-breathing cathode: Operation under pristine and contaminated conditions (2016)
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Atanassov, P., Schuler, A., Erable, B., Babanova, S., & Santoro, C. (2016). Bilirubin oxidase based enzymatic air-breathing cathode: Operation under pristine and contaminated conditions. Bioelectrochemistry, 108, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2015.10.005

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The performance of bilirubin oxidase (BOx) based air breathing cathode was constantly monitored over 45days. The effect of electrolyte composition on the cathode oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) output was investigated. Particular... Read More about Bilirubin oxidase based enzymatic air-breathing cathode: Operation under pristine and contaminated conditions.