PMID- 21158405
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110425
LR  - 20200930
IS  - 1530-6992 (Electronic)
IS  - 1530-6984 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 1
DP  - 2011 Jan 12
TI  - Three-dimensional carbon nanotube-textile anode for high-performance microbial 
      fuel cells.
PG  - 291-6
LID - 10.1021/nl103905t [doi]
AB  - Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) harness the metabolism of microorganisms, converting 
      chemical energy into electrical energy. Anode performance is an important factor 
      limiting the power density of MFCs for practical application. Improving the anode 
      design is thus important for enhancing the MFC performance, but only a little 
      development has been reported. Here, we describe a biocompatible, highly 
      conductive, two-scale porous anode fabricated from a carbon nanotube-textile 
      (CNT-textile) composite for high-performance MFCs. The macroscale porous 
      structure of the intertwined CNT-textile fibers creates an open 3D space for 
      efficient substrate transport and internal colonization by a diverse microflora, 
      resulting in a 10-fold-larger anolyte-biofilm-anode interfacial area than the 
      projective surface area of the CNT-textile. The conformally coated microscale 
      porous CNT layer displays strong interaction with the microbial biofilm, 
      facilitating electron transfer from exoelectrogens to the CNT-textile anode. An 
      MFC equipped with a CNT-textile anode has a 10-fold-lower charge-transfer 
      resistance and achieves considerably better performance than one equipped with a 
      traditional carbon cloth anode: the maximum current density is 157% higher, the 
      maximum power density is 68% higher, and the energy recovery is 141% greater.
FAU - Xie, Xing
AU  - Xie X
AD  - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, 
      California 94305, United States.
FAU - Hu, Liangbing
AU  - Hu L
FAU - Pasta, Mauro
AU  - Pasta M
FAU - Wells, George F
AU  - Wells GF
FAU - Kong, Desheng
AU  - Kong D
FAU - Criddle, Craig S
AU  - Criddle CS
FAU - Cui, Yi
AU  - Cui Y
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20101215
PL  - United States
TA  - Nano Lett
JT  - Nano letters
JID - 101088070
RN  - 0 (Biocompatible Materials)
RN  - 0 (Nanotubes, Carbon)
SB  - IM
MH  - Biocompatible Materials/chemistry
MH  - *Bioelectric Energy Sources/economics/trends
MH  - Electrodes
MH  - Electron Transport
MH  - Nanotubes, Carbon/*chemistry/ultrastructure
MH  - Porosity
MH  - *Textiles/analysis
EDAT- 2010/12/17 06:00
MHDA- 2011/04/26 06:00
CRDT- 2010/12/17 06:00
PHST- 2010/12/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/12/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/04/26 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1021/nl103905t [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nano Lett. 2011 Jan 12;11(1):291-6. doi: 10.1021/nl103905t. Epub 2010 Dec 15.