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Science 12 September 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5639, p. 1453
DOI: 10.1126/science.301.5639.1453a
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ELECTROCHEMISTRY:
Microbes Sweet on Making Power

Robert F. Service

In the September issue of Nature Biotechnology, a pair of microbiologists report that they've created a microbe-based fuel cell that harvests up to 83% of the available electrons in sugar molecules and passes them directly to an electrode, a rate of efficiency far higher than previously reported for fuel cells of this type.

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