Issue 4, 2011
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Energy & Environmental Science

Electrospun and solution blown three-dimensional carbon fiber nonwovens for application as electrodes in microbial fuel cells

Shuiliang Chen,†a   Haoqing Hou,c   Falk Harnisch,b   Sunil A. Patil,b   Alessandro A. Carmona-Martinez,b   Seema Agarwal,a   Yiyun Zhang,d   Suman Sinha-Ray,d   Alexander L. Yarin,*d   Andreas Greiner*a  and  Uwe Schröder*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Scientific Center of Materials Science, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
E-mail: greiner@staff.uni-marburg.de

b Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Chemistry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, Braunschweig, Germany
E-mail: uwe.schroeder@tu-bs.de

c Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China

d Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 842 W. Taylor St, Chicago, USA
E-mail: ayarin@uic.edu

Abstract

Three-dimensional carbon fiber electrodes prepared by electrospinning and solution blowing are shown to be excellent electrode materials for bioelectrochemical systems such as microbial fuel cells or microbial electrolysis cells. The bioelectrocatalytic anode current density is shown to reach values of up to 30 A m−2, which represents the highest reported values for electroactive microbial biofilms.

Graphical abstract: Electrospun and solution blown three-dimensional carbon fiber nonwovens for application as electrodes in microbial fuel cells

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0EE00446D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Sep 2010
Accepted
20 Dec 2010
First published
28 Jan 2011

Energy Environ. Sci., 2011,4, 1417-1421

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Electrospun and solution blown three-dimensional carbon fiber nonwovens for application as electrodes in microbial fuel cells

S. Chen, H. Hou, F. Harnisch, S. A. Patil, A. A. Carmona-Martinez, S. Agarwal, Y. Zhang, S. Sinha-Ray, A. L. Yarin, A. Greiner and U. Schröder, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 1417 DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00446D

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