The use of nanocarbon materials for development of biofuel elements

Abstract

The present paper concerns the activity of the microbic biofuel element which oxidizes ethanol. The intact bacterial cells of Gluconobacter oxydans or their membrane fractions were used as a bioelectrocatalyst. Thermoexpanded graphite (TEG) was used as a material of an electrode. The used strain of bacterial cells, as well as carbon composition types will make a basis of a prototype of a microbic biofuel element at development of the block of transformation and accumulation of electric energy.