Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
This project focuses on developing porous carbon from agricultural waste, which is environmentally friendly, cost-effective, and exhibits high biocompatibility and conductivity. This innovative material aims to enhance high power density microbial fuel cells and plant microbial fuel cells, promoting sustainability. The plant microbial fuel cell devices are particularly suitable for integration into green buildings and homes. Additionally, the project highlights liquid ammonia as a safe and energy-rich transport medium that decomposes into hydrogen for green energy applications. The main objective is to create electrode materials and additives for nitrogen-fixing green ammonia microbial electrolysis cells by utilizing agricultural waste. By combining electricity-generating and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, the project seeks to improve biological nitrogen fixation yields, contributing to energy sustainability and addressing energy depletion issues.
Results/Contributions

The porous carbon derived from agricultural waste developed in this project possesses high biocompatibility and high conductivity, while also offering advantages of environmental friendliness and low cost. This will effectively promote the development of high power density microbial fuel cells and plant microbial fuel cells, achieving the goal of environmental sustainability. Among them, the plant microbial fuel cell devices are beneficial for integration applications in green buildings and homes. Moreover, since liquid ammonia is a highly energy-rich substance that readily decomposes into hydrogen for use in many green energy systems, it is relatively safer for energy transport compared to hydrogen, making it a potentially indispensable future energy source. The objective of this project is to utilize agricultural waste to prepare porous carbon and carbon quantum dots as electrode materials and additives for nitrogen-fixing green ammonia microbial electrolysis cells, combining optimal electricity-generating bacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria to create a microbial electrolysis cell system. This will enhance the yield of biological nitrogen fixation systems, contributing to addressing energy depletion and promoting sustainable development.

Keywords
Microbial fuel cell; Plant microbial fuel cell; Bio-electrochemical nitrogen fixation; porous activated carbon; green carbon quantum dots; in-situ measurements; DFT calculations
References
1. https://cemlab.wixsite.com/cemlab

Ceramic/Carbon & Energy Materials Lab

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材料科學工程學系
mse@my.nthu.edu.tw