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Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors
The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a promising environmental biotechnology that has been proposed mainly for power production and wastewater treatment. Though small power output constrains its application for directly operating most electrical devices, great progress in its chemical, electrochemical,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31340591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios9030092 |
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author | Cui, Yang Lai, Bin Tang, Xinhua |
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description | The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a promising environmental biotechnology that has been proposed mainly for power production and wastewater treatment. Though small power output constrains its application for directly operating most electrical devices, great progress in its chemical, electrochemical, and microbiological aspects has expanded the applications of MFCs into other areas such as the generation of chemicals (e.g., formate or methane), bioremediation of contaminated soils, water desalination, and biosensors. In recent decades, MFC-based biosensors have drawn increasing attention because of their simplicity and sustainability, with applications ranging from the monitoring of water quality (e.g., biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), toxicants) to the detection of air quality (e.g., carbon monoxide, formaldehyde). In this review, we summarize the status quo of MFC-based biosensors, putting emphasis on BOD and toxicity detection. Furthermore, this review covers other applications of MFC-based biosensors, such as DO and microbial activity. Further, challenges and prospects of MFC-based biosensors are briefly discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-67843722019-10-16 Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors Cui, Yang Lai, Bin Tang, Xinhua Biosensors (Basel) Review The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a promising environmental biotechnology that has been proposed mainly for power production and wastewater treatment. Though small power output constrains its application for directly operating most electrical devices, great progress in its chemical, electrochemical, and microbiological aspects has expanded the applications of MFCs into other areas such as the generation of chemicals (e.g., formate or methane), bioremediation of contaminated soils, water desalination, and biosensors. In recent decades, MFC-based biosensors have drawn increasing attention because of their simplicity and sustainability, with applications ranging from the monitoring of water quality (e.g., biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), toxicants) to the detection of air quality (e.g., carbon monoxide, formaldehyde). In this review, we summarize the status quo of MFC-based biosensors, putting emphasis on BOD and toxicity detection. Furthermore, this review covers other applications of MFC-based biosensors, such as DO and microbial activity. Further, challenges and prospects of MFC-based biosensors are briefly discussed. MDPI 2019-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6784372/ /pubmed/31340591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios9030092 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Cui, Yang Lai, Bin Tang, Xinhua Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors |
title | Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors |
title_full | Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors |
title_fullStr | Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors |
title_full_unstemmed | Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors |
title_short | Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors |
title_sort | microbial fuel cell-based biosensors |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6784372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31340591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios9030092 |
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