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Improving the power generation of microbial fuel cells by modifying the anode with single-wall carbon nanohorns
Jiawei Yang1, Shaoan Cheng2, Yi Sun1
1State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy, Department of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, People's Republic of China.
Objectives:
To increase the power generation of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), anode modification with carbon materials (activated carbon, carbon nanotubes, and carbon nanohorns) was investigated.
Results:
Maximum power densities of a stainless-steel anode MFC with a non-modified electrode (SS-MFC), an activated carbon-modified electrode (AC-MFC), a carbon nanotube-modified electrode (CNT-MFC) and a carbon nanohorn-modified electrode (CNH-MFC) were 72, 244, 261 and 327 mW m-2, respectively. The total polarization resistance measured by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy were 3610 Ω for SS-MFC, 283 Ω for AC-MFC, 231 Ω for CNTs-MFC, and 136 Ω for CNHs-MFC, consistent with the anode resistances obtained by fitting the anode polarization curves.
Conclusions:
Single-wall carbon nanohorns are better than activated carbon and carbon nanotubes as a new anode modification material for improving anode performance.
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