TY - JOUR ID - 140627 TI - A Review on Advancements of Nanocomposites as Efficient Anode Modifier Catalyst for Microbial Fuel Cell Performance Improvement JO - Journal of Chemical Reviews JA - JCR LA - en SN - 2676-6868 AU - Dessie, Yilkal AU - Tadesse, Sisay AD - Applied Chemistry Department, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia AD - Chemistry Department, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 3 IS - 4 SP - 320 EP - 344 KW - Nanocomposites KW - Transition metal oxide KW - Conducting polymers KW - plant extract KW - Microbial fuel cell DO - 10.22034/jcr.2021.314327.1128 N2 - Non-renewable energy sources produced from natural coal and oil may result in climate change and global warming as greenhouse gases release to the environment. This reason faces the main utilization of energy sources on renewable and alternate green energy to deliver power. Thus, microbial fuel cell device is one of the cost-effective and environmentally friendly energy conversion devices that uses renewable organic wastes as fuel source and converts this stored chemical energy in to useful bioelectricity simultaneously with treating the waste in the presence of biocatalyst. Therefore, it is the most cost effective and simple electrochemical technique that delivers renewable energies. Most of the time electrodes of fuel cells are commercialized and depends on platinum catalyst. Obviously, platinum and its family cost are so expensive. To solve this, researchers are focused on low-cost electrode materials fabrication but still they are in low performance towards wastewater and current generations. Currently, conventional carbon materials are utilized as anode electrodes in laboratory even in pilot scale microbial fuel cell system but are ineffective in their performances due to various reasons. So, to improve performances, anode electrodes were modified with nanocomposites composed from low-cost transition metal oxides and conducting polymeric materials. Therefore, in this review possible ways of transition metal oxide synthesis including green method to form composite with selective conducting polymers, composite modification of anode and its role for wastewater treatment, dye removal as well as bioelectricity generations are briefly discussed. UR - https://www.jchemrev.com/article_140627.html L1 - https://www.jchemrev.com/article_140627_10e131e4b663eb43d4d44158f781eadd.pdf ER -