Journal of Ecology and Toxicology
Open Access

A recent advance and perspectives of electrode material in Microbial fuel cells(MFCs)

In modern era, research on production of energy and
bioremediation of toxic pollutant is a priority. Microbial
fuel cells (MFCs) are friendly effective power vitality
sources which can convert the chemical energy into electricity
form in presence of biocatalyst and simultaneously
remove the toxic pollutant from water resources without
any environmental pollution. Limitations have braked
the progress of MFC, including lower energy production,
pollutant removal efficiency, electrode materials and incapability
to design MFCs for industrialcapacities. However,
introduction of new innovative electrodematerials
has potential to develop the high-performance of MFCs.
In this article, the developments and improvements of
electrode materials to enhance the MFC performances
arebriefly summarized.Different classes of electrode including
bothanode and cathodewith severalmodification
methods are reviewed and discussed.The continued research
effortson sevral type of materials for high-performanceelectrodesin
order to achieve the MFCs performance
at industrial-scale.This article gives a summary
which is useful to decide the electrode material for future
research to achieve high performance because still longterm
stability is a challenge for scientific community. In
conclusion, the future prospective, useful suggestions
and modern challenges regardingMFCs are considered
through several aspects to achieve the long-term stability
task

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