Recycling bacteria for the synthesis of LiMPO4 (M = Fe, Mn) nanostructures for high-power lithium batteries

• Main Authors: Zhou, Yanping, Yang, Dan, Zeng, Yi, Zhou, Yan, Ng, Wun Jern, Yan, Qingyu, Fong, Eileen
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Nanostructured materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105315; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20470
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this work, a novel waste-to-resource strategy to convert waste bacteria into a useful class of cathode materials, lithium metal phosphate (LiMPO4; M = Fe, Mn), is presented. Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria used for removing phosphorus contamination from wastewater are harvested and used as pr...