Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

A fully protected hydrogenase/polymer-based bioanode for high-performance hydrogen/glucose biofuel cells

  • Adrian Ruff,
  • Julian Szczesny,
  • Nikola Marković,
  • Felipe Conzuelo,
  • Sónia Zacarias,
  • Inês A. C. Pereira,
  • Wolfgang Lubitz,
  • Wolfgang Schuhmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06106-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Hydrogenases are promising alternatives to noble metal-based catalysts for hydrogen oxidation. Here the authors fully protect air-sensitive hydrogenases from high potential and oxygen damage using a polymer multilayer bioanode in a biofuel cell that delivers a benchmark open circuit voltage.