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Xun Xu1, Qingliang Zhao2, Mingsong Wu3

  • 1School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.

Bioresource Technology
|December 14, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Fe(III) oxideMicrobial communitiesOrganics removalPower outputSediment microbial fuel cells

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