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Published online 4 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030630-9
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Microbe fuel cell packs more power
New anode harvests ten times more electricity from bacteria.
German researchers are generating ten times more electricity than before from bacteria.
Uwe Schröder and colleagues at Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald have created a prototype microbial fuel cell that captures the energy produced by Escherichia coli as it feeds on sugar1.
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