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Review
. 2023 May;195(5):3508-3531.
doi: 10.1007/s12010-023-04397-x. Epub 2023 Mar 6.

Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors and Applications

Anshika Varshney  1 , Lokendra Sharma  1 , Chetan Pandit  1 , Piyush Kumar Gupta  1   2 , Abhilasha Singh Mathuriya  3 , Soumya Pandit  4   5 , Dibyajit Lahiri  6 , Moupriya Nag  6 , Vijay Jagdish Upadhye  7
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Review

Microbial Fuel Cell-Based Biosensors and Applications

Anshika Varshney et al. Appl Biochem Biotechnol. 2023 May.

Abstract

The sustainable development of human society in today's high-tech world depends on some form of eco-friendly energy source because existing technologies cannot keep up with the rapid population expansion and the vast amounts of wastewater that result from human activity. A green technology called a microbial fuel cell (MFC) focuses on using biodegradable trash as a substrate to harness the power of bacteria to produce bioenergy. Production of bioenergy and wastewater treatment are the two main uses of MFC. MFCs have also been used in biosensors, water desalination, polluted soil remediation, and the manufacture of chemicals like methane and formate. MFC-based biosensors have gained a lot of attention in the last few decades due to their straightforward operating principle and long-term viability, with a wide range of applications including bioenergy production, treatment of industrial and domestic wastewater, biological oxygen demand, toxicity detection, microbial activity detection, and air quality monitoring, etc. This review focuses on several MFC types and their functions, including the detection of microbial activity.

Keywords: Bioenergy; Biosensors; Eco-friendly; Electrochemical; Microbial fuel cell.

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