TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ghasemi, Mostafa 
AU  - Rahimnejad, Mostafa 
AU  - Esmaeili, Chakavak 
AU  - Daud, Wan Ramli Wan 
AU  - Masdar, Mohd Shahbudin 
AU  - Majlan, Edy Herianto 
AU  - Hassan, Sedky H.A. 
AU  - Alam, Javed 
AU  - Ismail, Manal 
AU  - Alhoshan, Mansour Saleh 
PY  - 2012
TI  - Polysulfone Composed of Polyaniline Nanoparticles as Nanocomposite Proton Exchange Membrane in Microbial Fuel Cell
JF  - American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
DO  - 10.3844/ajbbsp.2012.311.319
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajbbsp.2012.311.319
AB  - Proton exchange membranes play a critical role in the performance of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) but their high price was always a big deal for commercialization of MFCs. In the present study, doped and undoped polyaniline nanoparticles/polysulfone nanocomposites membranes as a new type of PEM, were fabricated and applied in the MFC and their performance was compared with Nafion 117 as a traditional and expensive PEM. The obtained results show that MFC working by undoped Pani/Ps generated 78.1 mW/m2 which is higher than doped Pani/Ps system with 62.5 mW/m2. However, Naion 117 generated the highest power than other types of membrane by 93 mW/m2. It means that undoped Pani/Ps can compete in power generation with Nafion 117 and this is an outlook toward commercialization of MFC.