Microfluidic microbial fuel cell array for multiplexed long-term parallel analysis of microbial activities Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • A microfluidic microbial fuel cell array as a high-throughput screening platform for long-term studies of electricity-generating microbes has been developed. The device has 24 microfluidically-controlled miniaturized MFCs integrated on a single chip. Both periodic and continuous anolyte/catholyte replenishments can be performed, enabling long-term multiplexed MFC studies. Conversion efficiencies of lactate, acetate, xylose and TSB to electricity by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and an environmental isolate Shewanella sp. Hac353 in MFCs were characterized. Using this microfluidic MFC array, MFC efficiencies of different microbe-substrate combinations could be effectively analyzed, demonstrating the utility of the developed MFC array as a high-throughput screening platform for microbial metabolism studies. Copyright (2011) by the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.

name of conference

  • 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2011, MicroTAS 2011

published proceedings

  • 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2011, MicroTAS 2011

author list (cited authors)

  • Hou, H., Li, L., De Figueiredo, P., & Han, A.

complete list of authors

  • Hou, H||Li, L||De Figueiredo, P||Han, A

publication date

  • December 2011