Windable, Replaceable Enzyme Electrode Films

Also in 2011, Miyake et al. developed a flexible enzyme-CNT ensemble film and wound it onto a metal needle for direct oxidation of fuel from inside a living organism [7]. Such an enzyme electrode can be easily mounted onto the insertion MEFC and readily replaced when the original is degraded. 

FIGURE 17.4 (a) Schematic diagram of enzyme entrapment inside a CNTF by liquid-induced shrinkage. The photograph shows a freestanding enzyme-CNTF ensemble film that can be manipulated with tweezers, (b) A stand-alone, self-powered miniature sugar monitor, at the tip of which an FDH SITF ensemble film was wound, (c) A number of the self-powered 

These results support our methodology, which induces in situ regulation of intrananospace of the CNTF by the quantity and size of entrapped enzymes [7]. By connecting the FDH-based anode with a laccase-based cathode, the fuel cell performance was evaluated in an Oa-saturated Mcllvaine buffer containing 200 mM 

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