Microbial Fuel Cells: Electricity Generation from Organic Wastes by Microbes
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Kun Guo, Daniel J. Hassett, and Tingyue Gu National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA. Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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