Response to the comments on 'Electricity generation by Enterobacter cloacae SU-1 in mediator less microbial fuel cell' by Samrot et al., Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 35 (15) 2010,7723-7729

摘要

1. With great concern have we noticed the publication by Samrot et al. on a microbial fuel cell (MFC) with Enterobacter cloacae in the most recent issue of IJHE. The publication lacks fundamental understanding of the microbial fuel cell science and technology as well as any relevant background information on the used MFC setup that would allow reproducing/validating the results and claims of this study. It is especially crucial to advert to this because the authors report performance values above everything ever observed for MFCs in the research field (3 mW/cm2) and we are worried young, inexperienced researchers in this fast growing field might overrate this publication.