Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites for Bioelectrochemical Systems covers the advancement in nanomaterial and nanocomposite application for microbial fuel cells.
Microbial fuel cells are bio-electrochemical devices that generate electricity, using wastewater as the anode feed, through the degradation of organic matter in wastewater. One of the advantages of using microbial fuel cells is the simultaneous treatment of wastewater and the generation of electricity from complex organic waste and biomass, which demonstrates that microbial fuel cells are an active area of frontier research. In microbial fuel cells, bacteria and microorganisms interact with the electrode to form a biofilm on the anode surface. The addition of microorganisms is essential to enhance the reaction kinetics. This type of fuel cell helps to convert complex organic waste into useful energy through the metabolic activity of microorganisms, thereby generating energy. By incorporating nano-scale fillers into the nanocomposite matrix, the performance of the anode material can be improved.
This is an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who want to learn more about how nanotechnology is being used to create more efficient fuel cells.
About the Author
Dr Mubarak Mujawar is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Curtin University, Sarawak Campus, Malaysia. His main research areas are carbon nanotube/nanofiber synthesis using microwave heating, synthesis of magnetic biochar and activated carbon using microwave technology, synthesis of biofuel using microwave heating, advanced materials syntheses such as hydro char, and graphene using microwave technology, functionalization of carbon nanotube for sensor application, application of CNTs and CNFs for removal liquids and gases pollutant, protein purification using carbon nanomaterials, immobilization of enzyme on carbon nanotubes and advanced material and reaction engineering etc.
Abdul Sattar is Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Dawood University, Karachi, Pakistan. His area of research is coal cleaning and their uses for energy production, fermentation technologies, modeling and simulation, microbial fuel cells, and immobilization technology.
Shaukat Ali Mazari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Dawood University, Karachi, Pakistan. His research interests are purification and separation processes, the evaluation of amines stability for CO2 capture, biofuels from biomass, electrochemical CO2 reduction and preparation and characterization of electrodes, etc.
Sabzoi Nizamuddin is currently working as a Research Fellow in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at RMIT University (Australia). He received his PhD in 2019 from RMIT University. He was awarded the Research Excellence Award from RMIT University’s School of Engineering, based on the high quality and quantity of papers he published during his PhD. To date, he has been the author of more than 75 articles in peer-reviewed Scopus/SCI/ESCI-indexed journals, 5 book chapters for Elsevier and Springer, and has presented his findings at domestic and international conferences. Currently, he is a co-editor for ‘Frontiers in Energy Research’ and the ‘International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health’.
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