Engineering Architectures for Biofuel Cells

Abstract

Biofuel cells employing microorganisms as biocatalysts provide an environment-friendly fuel cell configuration. When miniaturized the biofuel cell becomes an attractive candidate for powering small devices like portable electronic devices, biological sensors and implantable medical devices, etc. A lot of research has gone into exploring various types of biocatalysts, their performance, architectural designs, their benefits and limitations and this chapter reviews them. Various components of architectural design in the fuel cell is discussed. A brief review on experimental tools used in characterisation of these systems is included. © 2021 Scrivener Publishing LLC.