Conductive and capacitive network for enriching the exoelectrogens and enhancing the extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells

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Although lots of nanomaterials modified anodes have been reported to improve the bacterial attachment and extracellular electron transfer (EET) in microbial fuel cells (MFCs), the lack of a three dimensional (3D) conductive and capacitive network severely limited MFCs performance. In this work, 3D conductive networks derived from mucor mycelia were grown on carbon cloth (CC), and capacitive FeMn phosphides/oxides were further anchored on these 3D networks by electrochemical deposition (denoted as FeMn/CMMCC) to simultaneously address the above challenges. As a result, the multivalent metal active sites were evenly distributed on 3D conductive network, which favored the enrichment of exoelectrogens, mass transport and EET. Consequently, the as-prepared FeMn/CMM@CC anode displayed accumulated charge of 131.4C/m2, higher than bare CC. Meanwhile, FeMn/CMM@CC anode substantially promoted flavin excretion and the amounts of nano conduits. The abundance of Geobacter was 63 % on bare CC, and greatly increased to 83 % on FeMn/CMM@CC. MFCs equipped by FeMn/CMM@CC anode presented the power density of 3.06 W/m2 and coulombic efficiency (29.9 %), evidently higher than bare CC (1.29 W/m2, 7.3 %), and the daily chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal amount also increased to 92.6 mg/L/d. This work developed a facile method to optimize the abiotic-biotic interface by introducing 3D conductive and capacitive network, which was proved to be a promising strategy to modify macro-porous electrodes.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:664

Enthalten in:

Journal of colloid and interface science - 664(2024) vom: 15. Apr., Seite 309-318

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cheng, Xusen [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Yunfeng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yanxia [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Miao [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Jinteng [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Zhuo [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Tiedong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Shaoqin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3D conductive network
7440-44-0
Capacitive anode
Carbon
Cell enrichment
Extracellular electron transfer
Journal Article
Microbial fuel cells

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Date Completed 08.04.2024

Date Revised 08.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcis.2024.03.063

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369689690