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Enhance Soil Remediation and Power Generation

Capabilities of Plant Microbial Fuel Cells

through PANI-CeO2 Modified Anode

Liping Fan,Naijian Wang

2024 · DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/185340
Polish Journal of Environmental Studies · 5 Citations

Abstract

Heavy metal pollution in soil has become a serious problem affecting crop cultivation and human health. Plant microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) have great prospects in soil remediation and regenerative power generation. In order to improve the ability of PMFCs to decontaminate heavy metal contaminated soil and generate electricity simultaneously, a plant microbial fuel cell (PMFC) experimental system was constructed by using polyaniline and nanocerium oxide modified electrodes (PANI-CeO 2 /CF) as anodes, cadmium contaminated soil as substrate