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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 745, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141163
Keywords
Microbial fuel cell; Layered double hydroxide (LDH); Fe3O4; Oxygen reduction reaction
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31901188]
- Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation [ZR2019BB040]
- Shandong Provincial Agricultural Fine Species Project [2019LZGC020]
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The improvement of cathode performance has always been the bottleneck and research hot spot for microbial fuel cells (MFCs). An Fe3O4@NiFe-LDH composite with a nanoscale core-shell structure containing an Fe3O4 magnetic core and a layered double hydroxide (LDH) shell was prepared by the hydrothermal method. The Fe3O4@NiFe-LDH was characterized by FT-IR, XRD, SEM and EDS. The characterization results showed that the composite had a unique cauliflower-like nanoflake structure and special pore size distribution, which greatly improved the ORR performance. Moreover, the use of the synthesized Fe3O4@NiFe-LDH core-shell structure as an electrode in an MFC was characterized by CV and LSV, which showed that the Fe3O4@NiFe-LDH exhibited excellent ORR catalytic properties. The voltage output of the Fe3O4@NiFe-LDH MFC was maintained at approximately 0.39 V, with insignificant variations over 110 h. The maximum power density was 211.40 +/- 2.27 mW/m(2), which was 34 times that of the blank control group MFC and was caused by the many electroactive sites, good rate capability and remarkable cycling stability of LDH. This study provides the possibility for using Fe3O4@Nile-LDH in cathodes to operate continuously and at low cost in fuel cells. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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