The enhancement of microbial fuel cell performance by anodic bacterial community adaptation and cathodic mixed nickel–copper oxides on a graphene electrocatalyst

Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Table 2 A comparative study of the performance of MFC between using different nickel-based electrocatalyst

Cathode catalyst	Anode material	Cathode material	Substrate	MFC configuration	Microorganism	Open circuit potential (mV)	closed circuit voltage (mV)	PD_max (mW.m⁻²)	Percentage to Pt cathode (%)	Ref.
NiO–CuO/G	Carbon felt	Carbon cloth	Sodium acetate	Air cathode	Activated sludge	654	541	21.25	42.16	This study
Nickel nanoparticles on reduced graphene oxide	Graphite brush	Carbon cloth	Sodium acetate	Air cathode	Anaerobic digester sludge	602	136.8	581	26.4	(Valipour et al. 2016) [5]
Naphthalocyanine on carbon black (NPc/C)	Carbon paper	Carbon paper	Wastewater	Double chamber	Anaerobic digester sludge	602	168	29.7	36.53	(Rae et al. 2011) [58]
Nickel oxide and carbon nanotube composite (NiO/CNT)	Carbon felts	Carbon cloth	Glucose	Air cathode	Acclimated sludge from methane-generating pond	772	380	670	N/A^a	(Huang et al. 2015) [29]
Pt-Ni alloy Nano particles on Carboxyl multi-wall carbon nanotubes (Pt-Ni/MWNT)	Carbon cloth	Carbon cloth	Glucose	Air cathode	Pre-domesticated bacteria from another double chamber MFC	740	570	1.22	86.8	(Yan et al. 2012) [16]
Ni-tetra sulfonated phthalocyanine	Stainless steel foam was modified with rGO	Carbon felt	Sodium acetate	Double chamber	A mixture of compost garden’s leachate			24.8	N/A^a	(Champavert et al. 2015) [32]
Graphene/nickel hybrids	Graphite plate	Graphite plate	Waste water	Dual chamber	Wastewater			34	N/A^a	(Kartick et al. 2016) [31]
Nickel nanoparticles	Carbon paper	Carbon paper	Glucose	Dual chamber	Palm oil mill effluent anaerobic sludge	751.8		94.4	78.15	(Ghasemi et al. 2013) [28]