Imperial College London
Dr Andrea Fantuzzi

DrAndreaFantuzzi

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences

Research Associate
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5223a.fantuzzi

 
 
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Location

 

717Sir Ernst Chain BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Sawa:2018,
author = {Sawa, M and Fantuzzi, A and Nixon, P and Hellgardt, K and Bombelli, P and Howe, C},
publisher = {Arm},
title = {Development of printed solar biobattery for use in bioelectronics},
url = {https://www.arm.com/company/events/research-summit},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - There is an urgent need to develop a sustainable battery technology that is cheap, environmentally friendly, easy to fabricate and to dispose of, especially to tackle the world-wide increase in illegally dumped electronic wastes. Microbial biophotovoltaic (BPV) technology is a renewable bioenergy system currently being developed at the laboratory scale. It generates electricity from the photosynthetic metabolism of cyanobacteria and microalgae and exploits their ability to convert light energy into electrical current using water as the source of electrons. Innovative approaches are needed to solve scale-up issues such as cost, ease of fabrication (particularly the fabrication of the inorganic and biological (microbes) parts).In this talk, I will report the feasibility of using a simple commercial thermal-inkjet printer to fabricate a thin-film paper-based BPV cell consisting of a layer of cyanobacterial cells on top of a carbon nanotube conducting surface on plain copy paper. The digitally printed thin-film BPV system produced electricity both in the light and dark, with a maximum electrical power output of 0.38 mW m-2 in one system and the sustained electrical current production over 100 hours in another more fully printed system.  I will address limitations and challenges as well possible applications in the area of printed bioelectronics.
AU  - Sawa,M
AU  - Fantuzzi,A
AU  - Nixon,P
AU  - Hellgardt,K
AU  - Bombelli,P
AU  - Howe,C
PB  - Arm
PY  - 2018///
TI  - Development of printed solar biobattery for use in bioelectronics
UR  - https://www.arm.com/company/events/research-summit
ER  -
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