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. 2021 May 1;11(5):248. doi: 10.1007/s13205-021-02802-y

Table 1.

Applications of microbial electrochemical technologies

Application Reference
1 Electrobioremediation of recalcitrant pollutants and xenobiotics (Sevda et al. 2018; Chakraborty et al. 2020b; Chandrasekhar et al. 2020; Wang et al. 2020b)
2 In situ remediation of groundwater and soil (Cecconet et al. 2020; Li et al. 2020)
3 MFC-coupled hybrid systems for environmental remediation and resource recovery (Yang et al. 2019; Zhang et al. 2019b; Elmaadawy et al. 2020; Wang et al. 2020a)⁠
4 Energy recovery from urine and solid wastes (Gurjar and Behera 2020; Santoro et al. 2020)⁠
5 Recycling elements using self-sustaining photosynthetic MFCs (Greenman et al. 2019; Mekuto et al. 2020)⁠
6 MFC-based biosensors (Sun et al. 2015; ElMekawy et al. 2018; Jiang et al. 2018; Sevda et al. 2020)⁠
7 Energy harvesting and storage in combination with electrochemical capacitors and as supercapacitive MFCs (Caizán-Juanarena et al. 2020; Soavi and Santoro 2020)
8 Carbon capture and microbial electrosynthesis of value-added products (Roy et al. 2015; Das et al. 2019; Chu et al. 2020)
9 Platform technology for novel applications (Butti et al. 2016; Zou and He 2018; Hoareau et al. 2019)