Electrospun carbon fibers for microbial fuel cells: A novel bioanode design applied to wastewater treatment

Electrospun carbon nanofibers (CNFs) are explored as a potential electrode material for bioanodes due to the advantages of a high specific surface area (surface area per volume), a good conductivity and an architecture and surface adapted to the electroactive bacteria colonization. These electrodes are colonized by exoelectrogenic strains – either the model bacterium Shewanella oneidensis or a wastewater-occurring bacterial consortium and are...