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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 196, Issue 22, Pages 9260-9269Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2011.07.060
Keywords
Biofuel cell; Glucose oxidation; Glucose oxidase; Glucose crossover; Charge transfer complex
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TTF-TCNQ has been used for the first time as a mediator in a direct glucose fuel cell operating on gas-phase oxygen. It has been shown that TTF-TCNQ forms highly irregular porous structure, which emphasizes the importance of optimization of mass transport and kinetic resistance in the catalyst layer. Kinetics resistance can be optimized by variation of the mediator and/or enzyme loading, while mass transport resistance mainly by the variation of other structural parameters such as electrode thickness. The optimized anode reached limiting current densities of nearly 400 mu A cm(-2) in presence of 5 mM glucose under rotation. The enzymatic fuel cell exhibited unexpectedly high OCV values (up to 0.99 V), which were tentatively ascribed to different pH conditions at the anode and the cathode. OCV was influenced by glucose crossover and was decreasing with an increase of glucose concentration or flow rate. Although the performance of the fuel cell is limited by the enzymatic anode, the long-term stability of the fuel cell is mainly influenced by the Pt cathode, while the enzymatic anode has higher stability. The fuel cell delivered power densities up to 120 mu W cm(-2) in presence of 5 mM glucose, depending on the glucose flow rate. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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