Hoa Le Quynh, Vestergaard Mun'delanji C, Tamiya Eiichi
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Unter den Eichen 87, Berlin 12205, Germany.
Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan.
Sensors (Basel). 2017 Nov 10;17(11):2587. doi: 10.3390/s17112587.
Environmental and sustainable economical concerns are generating a growing interest in biofuels predominantly produced from biomass. It would be ideal if an energy conversion device could directly extract energy from a sustainable energy resource such as biomass. Unfortunately, up to now, such a direct conversion device produces insufficient power to meet the demand of practical applications. To realize the future of biofuel-fed fuel cells as a green energy conversion device, efforts have been devoted to the development of carbon-based nanomaterials with tunable electronic and surface characteristics to act as efficient metal-free electrocatalysts and/or as supporting matrix for metal-based electrocatalysts. We present here a mini review on the recent advances in carbon-based catalysts for each type of biofuel-fed/biofuel cells that directly/indirectly extract energy from biomass resources, and discuss the challenges and perspectives in this developing field.
环境和可持续经济方面的考量使得人们对主要由生物质生产的生物燃料兴趣日益浓厚。如果有一种能量转换装置能够直接从生物质等可持续能源中提取能量，那将是理想的。不幸的是，到目前为止，这样的直接转换装置产生的功率不足以满足实际应用的需求。为了实现以生物燃料为燃料的燃料电池作为绿色能量转换装置的未来，人们致力于开发具有可调电子和表面特性的碳基纳米材料，以用作高效的无金属电催化剂和/或用作金属基电催化剂的支撑基质。我们在此对直接/间接从生物质资源中提取能量的各类以生物燃料为燃料的/生物燃料电池的碳基催化剂的最新进展进行简要综述，并讨论这一发展领域中的挑战和前景。
