Microbial fuel cells: From fundamentals to applications. A review
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TL;DR: The development of the concept of microbial fuel cell into a wider range of derivative technologies, called bioelectrochemical systems, is described, introducing briefly microbial electrolysis cells, microbial desalination cells and microbial electrosynthesis cells.
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About: This article is published in Journal of Power Sources. The article was published on 15 Jul 2017. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Bioelectrochemical reactor & Microbial electrosynthesis.
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