Microbial Biofuel Cells: Fundamental Principles, Development and Recent Obstacles
This review focuses on the development of microbial biofuel cells to demonstrate how similar principles apply to the development of bioelectronic devices. The low specificity of microorganism-based amperometric biosensors can be exploited in designing microbial biofuel cells, enabling them to consum...
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| author | Kasparas Kižys Antanas Zinovičius Baltramiejus Jakštys Ingrida Bružaitė Evaldas Balčiūnas Milda Petrulevičienė Arūnas Ramanavičius Inga Morkvėnaitė-Vilkončienė |
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| description | This review focuses on the development of microbial biofuel cells to demonstrate how similar principles apply to the development of bioelectronic devices. The low specificity of microorganism-based amperometric biosensors can be exploited in designing microbial biofuel cells, enabling them to consume a broader range of chemical fuels. Charge transfer efficiency is among the most challenging and critical issues while developing biofuel cells. Nanomaterials and particular redox mediators are exploited to facilitate charge transfer between biomaterials and biofuel cell electrodes. The application of conductive polymers (CPs) can improve the efficiency of biofuel cells while CPs are well-suitable for the immobilization of enzymes, and in some specific circumstances, CPs can facilitate charge transfer. Moreover, biocompatibility is an important issue during the development of implantable biofuel cells. Therefore, biocompatibility-related aspects of conducting polymers with microorganisms are discussed in this review. Ways to modify cell-wall/membrane and to improve charge transfer efficiency and suitability for biofuel cell design are outlined. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c6942f2577c485a8497ccff1a1ab2532023-11-16T19:25:46ZengMDPI AGBiosensors2079-63742023-02-0113222110.3390/bios13020221Microbial Biofuel Cells: Fundamental Principles, Development and Recent ObstaclesKasparas Kižys0Antanas Zinovičius1Baltramiejus Jakštys2Ingrida Bružaitė3Evaldas Balčiūnas4Milda Petrulevičienė5Arūnas Ramanavičius6Inga Morkvėnaitė-Vilkončienė7Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Conversion, State Research Institute Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, Saulėtekio Ave. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, LithuaniaLaboratory of Electrochemical Energy Conversion, State Research Institute Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, Saulėtekio Ave. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, LithuaniaFaculty of Natural Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, LT-44248 Kaunas, LithuaniaLaboratory of Electrochemical Energy Conversion, State Research Institute Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, Saulėtekio Ave. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, LithuaniaLaboratory of Electrochemical Energy Conversion, State Research Institute Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, Saulėtekio Ave. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, LithuaniaLaboratory of Electrochemical Energy Conversion, State Research Institute Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, Saulėtekio Ave. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, LithuaniaLaboratory of Electrochemical Energy Conversion, State Research Institute Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, Saulėtekio Ave. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, LithuaniaLaboratory of Electrochemical Energy Conversion, State Research Institute Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, Saulėtekio Ave. 3, LT-10257 Vilnius, LithuaniaThis review focuses on the development of microbial biofuel cells to demonstrate how similar principles apply to the development of bioelectronic devices. The low specificity of microorganism-based amperometric biosensors can be exploited in designing microbial biofuel cells, enabling them to consume a broader range of chemical fuels. Charge transfer efficiency is among the most challenging and critical issues while developing biofuel cells. Nanomaterials and particular redox mediators are exploited to facilitate charge transfer between biomaterials and biofuel cell electrodes. The application of conductive polymers (CPs) can improve the efficiency of biofuel cells while CPs are well-suitable for the immobilization of enzymes, and in some specific circumstances, CPs can facilitate charge transfer. Moreover, biocompatibility is an important issue during the development of implantable biofuel cells. Therefore, biocompatibility-related aspects of conducting polymers with microorganisms are discussed in this review. Ways to modify cell-wall/membrane and to improve charge transfer efficiency and suitability for biofuel cell design are outlined.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/13/2/221microbial biofuel cellsyeastdirect electron transferextracellular electron transfercell membrane/wall modificationsconductive polymers |
| spellingShingle | Kasparas Kižys Antanas Zinovičius Baltramiejus Jakštys Ingrida Bružaitė Evaldas Balčiūnas Milda Petrulevičienė Arūnas Ramanavičius Inga Morkvėnaitė-Vilkončienė Microbial Biofuel Cells: Fundamental Principles, Development and Recent Obstacles Biosensors microbial biofuel cells yeast direct electron transfer extracellular electron transfer cell membrane/wall modifications conductive polymers |
| title | Microbial Biofuel Cells: Fundamental Principles, Development and Recent Obstacles |
| title_full | Microbial Biofuel Cells: Fundamental Principles, Development and Recent Obstacles |
| title_fullStr | Microbial Biofuel Cells: Fundamental Principles, Development and Recent Obstacles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microbial Biofuel Cells: Fundamental Principles, Development and Recent Obstacles |
| title_short | Microbial Biofuel Cells: Fundamental Principles, Development and Recent Obstacles |
| title_sort | microbial biofuel cells fundamental principles development and recent obstacles |
| topic | microbial biofuel cells yeast direct electron transfer extracellular electron transfer cell membrane/wall modifications conductive polymers |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/13/2/221 |
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