Biobatteries and biofuel cells with biphenylated carbon nanotubes. Stolarczyk, K., Kizling, M., Majdecka, D., Zelechowska, K., Biernat, J. F., Rogalski, J., & Bilewicz, R. Journal of Power Sources, 249:263--269, 2014.
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) covalently biphenylated are used for the construction of cathodes in a flow biobattery and in flow biofuel cell. Zinc covered with a hopeite layer is the anode in the biobattery and glassy carbon electrode covered with bioconjugates of single-walled carbon nanotubes with glucose oxidase and catalase is the anode of the biofuel cell. The potentials of the electrodes are measured vs. the Ag/AgCl reference electrode under changing loads of the fuel cell/biobattery. The power density of the biobattery with biphenylated nanotubes at the cathode is ca. 0.6 mW cm(-2) and the open circuit potential is ca. 1.6 V. In order to obtain larger power densities and voltages three biobatteries are connected in a series which leads to the open circuit potential of ca. 4.8 V and power density 2.1 mW cm(-2) at 3.9 V under 100 k Omega load. The biofuel cell shows power densities of ca. 60 mu W cm(-2) at 20 k Omega external resistance but the open circuit potential for such biofuel cell is only 0.5 V. The biobattery showing significantly larger power densities and open circuit voltages are especially useful for testing novel cathodes and applications such as powering units for clocks and sensing devices. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
@article{ stolarczyk_biobatteries_2014,
  title = {Biobatteries and biofuel cells with biphenylated carbon nanotubes},
  volume = {249},
  issn = {0378-7753; 1873-2755},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.10.074},
  doi = {<Go to ISI>://WOS:000330256300035},
  abstract = {Single-walled carbon nanotubes ({SWCNTs)} covalently biphenylated are used for the construction of cathodes in a flow biobattery and in flow biofuel cell. Zinc covered with a hopeite layer is the anode in the biobattery and glassy carbon electrode covered with bioconjugates of single-walled carbon nanotubes with glucose oxidase and catalase is the anode of the biofuel cell. The potentials of the electrodes are measured vs. the {Ag/AgCl} reference electrode under changing loads of the fuel cell/biobattery. The power density of the biobattery with biphenylated nanotubes at the cathode is ca. 0.6 {mW} cm(-2) and the open circuit potential is ca. 1.6 V. In order to obtain larger power densities and voltages three biobatteries are connected in a series which leads to the open circuit potential of ca. 4.8 V and power density 2.1 {mW} cm(-2) at 3.9 V under 100 k Omega load. The biofuel cell shows power densities of ca. 60 mu W cm(-2) at 20 k Omega external resistance but the open circuit potential for such biofuel cell is only 0.5 V. The biobattery showing significantly larger power densities and open circuit voltages are especially useful for testing novel cathodes and applications such as powering units for clocks and sensing devices. (C) 2013 Elsevier {B.V.} All rights reserved.},
  journal = {Journal of Power Sources},
  author = {Stolarczyk, Krzysztof and Kizling, Michal and Majdecka, Dominika and Zelechowska, Kamila and Biernat, Jan F. and Rogalski, Jerzy and Bilewicz, Renata},
  year = {2014},
  pages = {263--269}
}

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