ArticleBiofilm2021
Microbial fuel cells and their electrified biofilms.
Article in Biofilm, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Impact and applications of cyclic di-GMP second messenger signaling in biotechnology and medicine.Sustainable microbiology · 2025Review
- Revolutionizing dairy waste: emerging solutions in conjunction with microbial engineering.Biodegradation · 2024Review
- The influence of benzene on the composition, diversity and performance of the anodic bacterial community in glucose-fed microbial fuel cells.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Sustainable circular biorefinery approach for novel building blocks and bioenergy production from algae using microbial fuel cell.Bioengineered · 2023Review
- Influence of Hydrodynamic Forces on Electroactive Bacterial Adhesion in Microbial Fuel Cell Anodes.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- An Overview of Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Sustainable Electricity Production.Membranes · 2023Review
- Isolation and Characterisation of Electrogenic Bacteria from Mud Samples.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Application of Magnetite-Nanoparticles and Microbial Fuel Cell on Anaerobic Digestion: Influence of External Resistance.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Polyaniline-Derived Nitrogen-Containing Carbon Nanostructures with Different Morphologies as Anode Modifier in Microbial Fuel Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Lysozyme regulates the extracellular polymer of activated sludge and promotes the formation of electroactive biofilm.Bioprocess and biosystems engineering · 2022Article
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- Engineered microbial consortia: strategies and applications.Microbial cell factories · 2021Review
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Abstract
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) represent a wide range of different biofilm-based bioreactors that includes microbial fuel cells (MFCs), microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) and microbial desalination cells (MDCs). The first described bioelectrical bioreactor is the Microbial Fuel Cell and with the exception of MDCs, it is the only type of BES that actually produces harvestable amounts of electricity, rather than requiring an electrical input to function. For these reasons, this review article, with previously unpublished supporting data, focusses primarily on MFCs. Of relevance is the architecture of these bioreactors, the type of membrane they employ (if any) for separating the chambers along with the size, as well as the geometry and material composition of the electrodes which support biofilms. Finally, the structure, properties and growth rate of the microbial biofilms colonising anodic electrodes, are of critical importance for rendering these devices, functional living 'engines' for a wide range of applications.
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