Biofuel cells (BFCs) that utilize enzymes as catalysts represent a new sustainable and renewable energy technology. Numerous efforts have been directed to improve the performance of the enzymatic BFCs (EBFCs) with respect to power output and operational stability for further applications in portable power sources, self-powered electrochemical sensing, implantable medical devices, etc. The lates...

C4 grasses are common species in rangelands around the world and represent an attractive option for second-generation biofuel production. Although they display high polysaccharide content reach great levels of biomass accumulation, there is a major technical issue to be addressed before can used bioethanol industrial production: lignin removal. Concerning this, Pycnoporus Ganoderma fungal gener...

Plant cell walls represent an abundant, renewable source of biofuel and other useful products. The major bottleneck for the industrial scale-up of their conversion to simple sugars (saccharification), to be subsequently converted by microorganisms into ethanol or other products, is their recalcitrance to enzymatic saccharification. We investigated whether the structure of pectin that embeds the...

We present novel supported electro-catalytic systems based on metallic/bimetallic (Pt, Au-Pt) nanoparticles decorated carbon nanotubes Buckypaper (BP), and Bilirubin Oxidase (BOD) decorated Buckypaper-based biocathodes in neutral medium for direct glucose fuel cell. The electrodes have been tested for their suitability in mixed-reactant biofuel cell applications in a phosphate buffer solution (...

Efficient lysis is critical when analyzing single cells in microfluidic droplets, but existing methods utilize detergents that can interfere with the assays to be performed. We demonstrate robust cell lysis without the use of detergents or other chemicals. In our method, cells are exposed to electric field immediately before encapsulation in droplets, resulting in cell lysis. We characterize ly...