Regulating the respiration of microbe A bio-inspired high performance microbial supercapacitor with graphene based electrodes and its kinetic features》.pdf

Nano Energy (2015) 15, 697–708 Available online at journal homepage: /locate/nanoenergy RAPID COMMUNICATION Regulating the respiration of microbe: A bio-inspired high performance microbial supercapacitor with graphene based electrodes and its kinetic features a,n b c d Hao Ren , He Tian , Hyung-Sool Lee , Taejin Park , d b a Frederick C. Leung , Tian-Ling Ren , Junseok Chae aSchool of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, 650 E. Tyler Mall, GWC 302, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA bInstitute of Microelectronics Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing, 10084, PR China cDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1 dSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China Received 2 February 2015; received in revised form 20 May 2015; accepted 23 May 2015 Available online 4 June 2015 KEYWORDS Abstract Microbial supercapa- Toward a carbon neutral renewable energy conversion and storage device, we present a novel citor; bio-inspired microbial supercapacitor, utilizing unique pseudocapacitance formed by exoelec- Bio-inspired materi- trogen, a specific species of bacteria named Geobacter spp. grown on single-layer graphene film als; and 3D graphene-scaffold electrodes. Charging and discharging the microbial supercapacitor Pseudocapacitance; were performed by regulating the respiration of the exoelectrogen. Substantially hig