Waste to real energy: the first MFC powered mobile phone
Ioannis A. Ieropoulos, Pablo Ledezma, Andrew Stinchcombe, George Papaharalabos, Chris Melhuisha and John Greenmanb
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 15312-15316
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP52889H
Received 18 Jun 2013, Accepted 10 Jul 2013
First published online 16 Jul 2013 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
This communication reports for the first time the charging of a commercially available mobile phone, using Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) fed with real neat urine. The membrane-less MFCs were made out of ceramic material and employed plain carbon based electrodes.
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