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Waste Water Derived Electroactive Microbial Biofilms: Growth, Maintenance, and Basic Characterization
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Generating electricity from biofluid with a nanowire-based biofuel cell for self-powered nanodevices
Caofeng Pan1, Ying Fang, Hui Wu
1Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy, Laboratory of Advanced Materials, State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|October 26, 2010
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