Laccases are multicopper oxidoreductases with broad substrate specificity and are applied in biofuel cells at the cathode to improve its oxygen reduction performance. However, the production of laccases by e.g. fungi is often accompanied by the need of synthetic growth supplements for increased enzyme production. In this study we present a strategy for the white-rot fungus Pleurotus sajor-caju ...

Abstract Carbon-based nanostructures are receiving increasing attention over the past two decades due to their unprecedented multi-functional features. However, macro-scale structural applications of these have not yet come full fruition involvement complex multi-scale computations and manufacturing. Recently, research community has started investigating buckypaper, which can be described as a ...

Highly efficient supported catalyst layers based on metallic/bimetallic (Pt, Au-Pt) nanoparticles decorated-single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) on Buckypaper (BP) for direct glucose fuel cell are presented here. The electrodes have been tested in mixed-reactant biofuel cell. High glucose-tolerance, stability and catalytic activity are observed for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) that resu...

Then came the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by Iijima [2] of NEC Laboratories, Japan, who observed these ‘needle like tubes’, which are 50,000 times thinner than human hair. He proposed a new growth model and produced these structures using an arc-discharge evaporation method. During the same year (1991), a Japanese company developed a method to grow carbon nanofibers (CNFs) [3]. Ever si...