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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 22, Pages 14732-14739Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05000
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- Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
- Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
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For microbial electrochemical technologies to be successful in the decentralized treatment of wastewater, steady-state power density must be improved and cost must be decreased. Here, we demonstrate in vivo polymerization (hard-wiring) of a microbial community to a growing layer of conductive polypyrrole on a sponge bioanode of a microbial battery, showing rapid biocatalytic current development (similar to 10 times higher than a sponge control after 4 h). Moreover, bioanodes with the polymerized inoculant maintain higher steady-state power density (similar to 2 times greater than the control after 28 days). We then evaluate the same hard-wired bioanodes in both a two-chamber microbial fuel cell and microbial battery with a solid-state (NaFeFeIII)-Fe-II(CN)(6) (Prussian Blue) cathode, showing approximately an order-of-magnitude greater volumetric power density with the microbial battery. The result is a rapid start-up, low-cost (no membrane or platinum catalyst), and high volumetric power density system (independent of atmospheric oxygen) for harvesting energy and carbon from dilute organics in wastewater.
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