TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating Variability in Microbial Fuel Cells
AU - Leicester, Daniel David
AU - Settle, Sam
AU - McCann, Clare M.
AU - Heidrich, Elizabeth Susan
N1 - Funding information: The authors would like to thank Sophie Leicester, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/S032517/1, the STREAM Centre for Doctoral Training EP/L015412/1 and Ward and Burke Construction Ltd. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license permitted by UKRI to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising.
PY - 2023/2/22
Y1 - 2023/2/22
N2 - The research presented, although carried out in the area of microbial fuel cells, reaches an important and broadly impacting conclusion that when using mixed inoculate in replica reactors under replicated conditions, different communities emerge capable of different levels of metabolism. To date there has been very little research focusing on this, or even reporting it, with most studies using duplicate or triplicate reactors, in which this phenomenon is not fully observed.
AB - The research presented, although carried out in the area of microbial fuel cells, reaches an important and broadly impacting conclusion that when using mixed inoculate in replica reactors under replicated conditions, different communities emerge capable of different levels of metabolism. To date there has been very little research focusing on this, or even reporting it, with most studies using duplicate or triplicate reactors, in which this phenomenon is not fully observed.
KW - bioelectrochemical systems
KW - microbial fuel cells
KW - microbiology
KW - variability
U2 - 10.1128/aem.02181-22
DO - 10.1128/aem.02181-22
M3 - Article
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Applied and Environmental Microbiology
JF - Applied and Environmental Microbiology
SN - 0099-2240
ER -