Microbial Fuel Cells: Now Let us Talk about Energy

摘要

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have been thoroughly studied in the past decade and much understanding of their microbiology, electrochemistry, and reactor architecture/ operation has been obtained through intensive research and thousands of journal publications.1 MFCs are attractive as a new platform (e.g., micro-MFCs) to study microbial interaction with an electron acceptor/donor and the electron-transfer mechanisms involved in this interaction, power sources for remote sensors (sediment MFCs), or more popularly as an alternative approach for wastewater treatment and bioenergy production from wastes.