恭喜陈沁同学在Bioresource Technology 上发表论文：
Activated microporous-mesoporous carbon derived from chestnut shell as a sustainable anode material for high performance microbial fuel cells，Qin Chen,Wenhong Pu,Huijie Hou,Bingchuan Liu,Jianfeng Li,Kai Cheng,Long Huang,Xiqing Yuan,Changzhu Yang, Jiakuan Yang* ,Bioresource Technology,2018,249,567-573
全文: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2017.09.086
摘要：
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are promising biotechnologies tool to harvest electricity by decomposing organic matter in waste water, and the anode material is a critical factor in determining the performance of MFCs. In this study, chestnut shell is proposed as a novel anode material with mesoporous and microporous structure prepared via a simple carbonization procedure followed by an activation process. The chemical activation process successfully modified the macroporous structure, created more mesoporous and microporous structure and decreased the O−content and pyridinic/pyrrolic N groups on the biomass anode, which were beneficial for improving charge transfer efficiency between the anode surface and microbial biofilm. The MFC with activated biomass anode achieved a maximum power density (23.6 W m−3) 2.3 times higher than carbon cloth anode (10.4 W m−3). This study introduces a promising and feasible strategy for the fabrication of high performance anodes for MFCs derived from cost-effective, sustainable natural materials.
