Postdoctoral Associate

Microbial Fuel Cells-Biology

Contact Info

Office:10
Phone:413-577-1251
email:hrichter@microbio.umass.edu

Education

  • PhD, Institut fuer Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Universitaet Mainz, Germany

Research description

  • Current generation in Microbial Fuel Cells with Geobacter sulfurreducens
  • H-cells, stacked microbial fuelcells
  • Gold electrodes / self assembled monolayers
  • Coculture fuel cells with G. sulfurreducens and P. carbinolicus
  • Investigation of current generation by mutants of G. sulfurreducens


Sediment from boston harbour
Sediment fuel cell
Scheme of a "H-type" microbial fuel cell
"H-type" microbial fuel cells



Fuel cell anode split into sections and labelled with different FISH-probes
Coculture biofilm of G. sulfurreducens (red) and P. carbinolicus (green) on fuel cell anode
Gold electrode preparation
Fuel cell stack assembly



Fuel cell stack in operation
Thick biofilm of G. sulfurreducens on fuel cell anode