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Microfluidic Microbial Fuel Cell: On-chip Automated and Robust Method to Generate Energy

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Microbial Fuel Cell

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Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrochemical fuel cell where microorganisms, such as bacteria and virus, are used to catalyse the redox reaction to generate energy. Due to their inherent process, MFCs lead to the production of green and clean renewable energy in a self-sustainable manner. Even though, humongous work has been carried out in MFC domain leading to the exponentially increasing scientific output over the years, there has been limitation to harness MFC as a viable, workable but cost-effective remedy to the current energy and environmental challenges due to its expensiveness, low performance and challenges to scale-up (Lee et al. 2015a, b; Wang et al. 2015).

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Goel, S. (2018). Microfluidic Microbial Fuel Cell: On-chip Automated and Robust Method to Generate Energy. In: Das, D. (eds) Microbial Fuel Cell. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66793-5_12

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