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The demand for novel renewable energy sources, together with the new findings on bacterial electron transport mechanisms and the progress in microbial fuel cell design, have raised a noticeable interest in microbial power generation. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is an electrochemical device that converts organic substrates into electricity via catalytic conversion by microorganism. It has represented a continuously growing research field during the past few years. This book presents how it is possible to optimize the properties and design of the micro-size microbial fuel cell for maximum efficiency by understanding the MFC system. So it involved designing, building and testing a miniature microbial fuel cell using a new species of microorganisms that promises high efficiency and long lifetime. The new device offer unique advantages of fast start-up, high sensitivity and superior microfluidic control over the measured microenvironment, which makes them good candidates for rapid screening of electrode materials, bacterial strains and growth media.

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Elisa Battistelli, born in Urbino, italy 03/01/88. High school Humanistic certificate BACHELOR S DEGREE and MASTER S DEGREE in Biomedical Engineering at ALMA MATER STUDIORUM. VISITOR at ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Southampton. Stage regulatory office in San marino and Stage technical office in Verona.

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