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Modification of PPy-NW anode by carbon dots for high-performance mini-microbial fuel cells


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Mohtar, Mohd Nazim and Zhao, Zhiwei and Weng, Z. and Lei, W. and Zhu, D. and Jiang, H. and Mohtar, M. N. and Abdul Halin, Izhal (2020) Modification of PPy-NW anode by carbon dots for high-performance mini-microbial fuel cells. Fuel Cells, 20 (2). 203 - 211. ISSN 1615-6846; ESSN: 1615-6854

Abstract

To boost the performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), a novel material of polypyrrole nanowires (PPy-NWs) modified by carbon dots (CDs) is synthesized by polymerizing pyrrole monomers and CDs, in which CDs are attached and distributed on the surface of the PPy-NWs, thus leading to the rough surface with a special dot-line structure. Such CDs/PPy-NW composite with special unique structure exhibits superior properties, and excellent performance is found for MFC using CDs/PPy-NW composite as anode. The electron transfer rate increases to 0.0934 s−1 with a sharp rise by 26% over pure PPy-NWs, and the resistances of CDs/PPy-NW electrode are only one third of those of pure PPy-NWs electrode. Further, the mini-MFC equipped with the CDs/PPy-NW composite as anode exhibits a high open circuit voltage (630 mV) and its maximum power density with a value of 291.4 mW m−2 is twice that of the mini-MFC equipped with pure PPy-NWs anode. These results demonstrate CDs/PPy-NW with a unique dot-line structure as a more promising anode material for MFC application.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Institute of Advanced Technology
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1002/fuce.201900210
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: Microbial fuel cells (MFCs); Polypyrrole nanowires (PPy-NWs); Carbon dots (CDs)
Depositing User: Mohamad Jefri Mohamed Fauzi
Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2021 02:09
Last Modified: 22 Nov 2021 02:09
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/86804
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