A Miniature Biofuel Cell

Chen, Ting; Barton, Scott Calabrese; Binyamin, Gary; Gao, Zhiqiang; Zhang, Yongchao; Kim, Hyug-Han; Heller, Adam

doi:10.1021/ja0163164

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“…Amongst these, enzymatic biofuel cells that use glucose in a human body to produce electricity for embedded microsystems have been of special interest [3]. This is because they work under mild conditions of room temperature, neutral pH and atmospheric pressure, which make them amenable to the human body [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. MEMS technologies are advantageous for biofuel cells as they enable miniaturization and mass production.…”

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Fabrication and Characterization of Glucose Fuel Cells with a Microchannel Fabricated on Flexible Polyimide Film

Fukushi

Koide

Ikoma

et al. 2013

J. Photopol. Sci. Technol.

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In this work, a glucose fuel cell was fabricated using microfabrication processes assigned for microelectromechanical systems. The fuel cell was equipped with a microchannel to flow an aqueous solution of glucose. The cell was fabricated on a flexible polyimide substrate, and its porous carbon-coated aluminum (Al) electrodes of 2.8 mm in width and 11 mm in length were formed using photolithography and screen printing techniques. Porous carbon was deposited by screen printing of carbon black ink on the Al electrode surfaces in order to increase the effective electrode surface area and to absorb more enzymes on the electrode surfaces. The microchannel with a depth of 200 μm was fabricated using a hot embossing technique. A maximum power of 0.45 μW at 0.5 V that corresponds to a power density of 1.45 μW/cm 2 was realized by introducing a 200 mM concentrated glucose solution at room temperature.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Fabrication and Characterization of Glucose Fuel Cells with a Microchannel Fabricated on Flexible Polyimide Film

Fukushi

Koide

Ikoma

et al. 2013

J. Photopol. Sci. Technol.

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“…In addition, small biofuel cells show promise over batteries or solar cells for applications such as powering autonomous sensors or sensor networks (7)(8)(9)(10). Many homeland security, military, and medical applications for miniature sensors make recharging or replacing batteries impossible, while other applications may require power sources to function in environments where there is limited or no sunlight.…”

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confidence: 99%

High Power Density from a Miniature Microbial Fuel Cell Using Shewanella oneidensis DSP10

Ringeisen

Henderson

et al. 2006

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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A miniature microbial fuel cell (mini-MFC) is described that demonstrates high output power per device crosssection (2.0 cm 2 ) and volume (1.2 cm 3 ). Shewanella oneidensis DSP10 in growth medium with lactate and buffered ferricyanide solutions were used as the anolyte and catholyte, respectively. Maximum power densities of 24 and 10 mW/m 2 were measured using the true surface areas of reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) and graphite felt (GF) electrodes without the addition of exogenous mediators in the anolyte. Current densities at maximum power were measured as 44 and 20 mA/m 2 for RVC and GF, while short circuit current densities reached 32 mA/m 2 for GF anodes and 100 mA/m 2 for RVC. When the power density for GF was calculated using the cross sectional area of the device or the volume of the anode chamber, we found values (3 W/m 2 , 500 W/m 3 ) similar to the maxima reported in the literature. The addition of electron mediators resulted in current and power increases of 30-100%. These power densities were surprisingly high considering a pure S. oneidensis culture was used. We found that the short diffusion lengths and high surface-area-to-chamber volume ratio utilized in the mini-MFC enhanced power density when compared to output from similar macroscopic MFCs.

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“…The first micro-sized enzymatic biofuel cells reported in 2001 (Chen et al, 2001). A glucose/O 2 biofuel cell consisted of two 7 μm diameter, 2 cm long electrocatalyst-coated carbon fibers operating at ambient temperature in a pH 5 aqueous solution.…”

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Recent Development of Miniatured Enzymatic Biofuel Cells 657

Song¹,

Penmasta²,

Wang³

2011

Biofuel's Engineering Process Technology

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A Miniature Biofuel Cell

Cited by 434 publications

References 11 publications

Fabrication and Characterization of Glucose Fuel Cells with a Microchannel Fabricated on Flexible Polyimide Film

Fabrication and Characterization of Glucose Fuel Cells with a Microchannel Fabricated on Flexible Polyimide Film

High Power Density from a Miniature Microbial Fuel Cell Using Shewanella oneidensis DSP10

Recent Development of Miniatured Enzymatic Biofuel Cells 657

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