Prussian bluegraphene-modified electrode used as a novel oxygen reduction cathode in microbial fuel cell》.pdf

ARTICLE IN PRESS JID: JTICE [m5G;July 6, 2015;8:48] Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 000 (2015) 1–7 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers journal homepage: /locate/jtice Prussian blue/graphene-modified electrode used as a novel oxygen reduction cathode in microbial fuel cell ∗ Lei Xu, Guoquan Zhang , Jie Chen, Guang en Yuan, Lei Fu, Fenglin Yang Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering, MOE, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Linggong Road 2, Dalian 116023, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Prussian blue/graphene (PB/GE) nanocomposite was successfully synthesized and the oxygen reduction reac- Received 17 December 2014 tion (ORR) activities were studied in our previous work. In this study the PB/GE nanocomposite and PB were Revised 10 June 2015 deposited on the surface of active carbon particles, and the resulted particles were placed in two microbial Accepted 14 June 2015 fuel cells (MFC) as the three-dimensional cathode electrodes for oxygen reduction. The two MFCs were la- Available online xxx beled as PB/GE-MFC and PB-MFC, and their performances were evaluated in the long term o