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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"bioelectricity"”.
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MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS AS A PROMISING TECHNOLOGY FOR SIMULTANEOUS WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND BIOELECTRICITY GENERATION
… for simultaneous wastewater treatment and bioelectricity generation. Through converting the chemical energy stored in waste into electrical energy through extracellular electron transfer between microorganisms and an electrode surface, MFCs have several advantages over the conventional …
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Strategies to enhance extracellular electron transfer rates in wild-type cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942 for photo-bioelectricity generation
… in cyanobacteria, to be utilised for photo-bioelectricity generation in biophotovoltaics (electrochemical cell). An initial cross comparison of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942 against other exoelectrogenic cultures showed a hindered exoelectrogenic capacity. Nonetheless, …
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Etanol versus bioeletricidade: aplicação dos conceitos de fronteira eficiente de Markowitz para o aproveitamento do bagaço residual do setor sucroenergético
… packages to the advanced ethanol production and bioelectricity, as well as introducing subsidies. It was possible to conclude that, in the current stage of lignocellulosic ethanol production, the lowest risk portfolio has a large allocation of bagasse to bioelectricity sold in the regulated …
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Performance analysis of bioanode materials and the study of the metabolic activity of Rhodopseudomonas palustris in photo-bioelectrochemical systems
… of electron transfer of the microorganisms for bioelectricity generation. The first strategy adopted was the evaluation of the exoelectrogenic activity of oxygenic photosynthetic cyanobaterium, Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, in biophotovoltaic (BPV) platforms through a comparative performance …
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Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons using microbial fuel cells
… these environmental pollutants with concomitant bioelectricity generation. Therefore, the overarching objective of this study was to develop an MFC system for the effective and efficient treatment of petroleum hydrocarbons in both liquid and particulate systems. Biodegradation of target …
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Advancing Microbial Desalination Cell towards Practical Applications
… and molecule transport which are controlled by bioelectricity and concentration gradient. Scaling and fouling is also a factor needs to be taken into consideration when operating the MDC system in real world. With mathematical modeling, we can provide insight to bridge the gap between lab-scale …
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Treatment of azo dyes in industrial wastewater using microbial fuel cells
… types can be achieved with concomitant bioelectricity generation in two-chamber MFCs. Power densities up-to 37 mWm-2 were observed in the two-chamber MFC system during AO-7 decolourisation. Co-metabolic reductive degradation of azo dye mixtures using dye acclimated mixed microbial …
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Enzymatic fuel cells via synthetic pathway biotransformation
… In this work, it was applied to generate bioelectricity for the first time. Non-natural enzymatic pathways were developed to utilize maltodextrin and glucose in enzymatic fuel cells. Three immobilization approaches were compared for preparing enzyme electrodes. Thermostable enzymes from …
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Sustained Depolarization of the Resting Membrane Potential Regulates Muscle Progenitor Cell Growth and Maintains Stem Cell Identity in vitro
It is important to maintain the myogenic properties of muscle progenitor cells (MPCs) during in vitro expansion for stem cell therapies and tissue engineering applications. Controlling cell fate for biomedical interventions will require insight on all aspects that influence cellular properties. The …
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High-power acid Biophotovoltaic cells for the generation of green electricity
… electrical conductivity and resulting enhanced bioelectricity generation. This project describes the use of extremophile microorganisms as the biological material in MFCs, for the investigation of low internal resistance biological fuel cells. In particular, this thesis focuses on BPV …
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Optimizing electrogenic activity from photosynthetic bacteria in bioelectrochemical systems
… for quantifying the efficiency of light to bioelectricity conversion. This approach is a first step towards a more comprehensive and detailed set of analytical tools to monitor EET in direct relation to the underlying photosynthetic biology. A set of metabolic electron sinks were deleted to …
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DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS FOR AZO DYE DEGRADATION
… azo dyes while simultaneously generating bioelectricity. The model dye Acid Orange-7 (AO-7) was treated using Rhodopseudomonas palustris in a photosynthetic microbial fuel cell (PMFC). R. palustris was selected due to its metabolic versatility and potential for complete dye degradation. …
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Visual-vestibular interaction in spatial orientation
Contains fulltext : 19092_visuinins.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Investigation of the roles of ion channels in the development of the sea urchin embryo
Ion channels and pumps play critical roles during sea urchin development including mediating the blocks to polyspermy, regulating left-right and dorsal-ventral axis specification, directing ventral PMC migration, and controlling biomineralization of the larval skeleton. We performed a screen of …