Supporting Information

Photocoupled Bioanode: A New Approach for Improved

Microbial Fuel Cell Performance
Hyeon-Woo Kim,[a] Kyeong-Seok Lee,[a] Abdul Razzaq,[a] Sung Hyun Lee,[a]
Craig A. Grimes,[b] and Su-Il In*[a]

ente_201700177_sm_miscellaneous_information.pdf
Author Contributions

S.I. Conceptualization: Equal; Supervision: Equal; Writing—review & editing: Equal

H.K. Data curation: Equal; Investigation: Equal; Writing—original draft: Equal
K.L. Data curation: Equal; Formal analysis: Equal; Writing—review & editing: Equal
A.R. Data curation: Equal; Formal analysis: Equal; Writing—original draft: Equal; Writing—review & editing: Equal
S.L. Formal analysis: Equal; Writing—original draft: Equal; Writing—review & editing: Equal.
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Supporting Information

Photocoupled Bioanode: A New Approach for

Improved Microbial Fuel Cell Performance

Hyeon-Woo Kim,[a] Kyeong-Seok Lee,[a] Dr. Abdul Razzaq,[a] Sung Hyun Lee,[a] Dr. Craig A.

Grimes,[b] and Prof. Su-Il In*[a]

[a] Department of Energy Systems Engineering, DGIST, 333 Techno Jungang-daero,

Hyeonpung-myeon, Dalseong-gun, Daegu, 42988, Republic of Korea.

[b] Flux Photon Corporation, 116 Donmoor Court, Garner, North Carolina, 27529, United

States.

†
Authors contributed equally to the paper.

* Corresponding Author: Tel: +82-53-785-6417; Fax: +82-53-785-6409

*E-mail address: insuil@dgist.ac.kr

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Figure S1. (a) XPS Survey scan of TiO2 nanotube arrays (TNT) photoanode

exhibiting the presence of Ti, O, C and N elements. High resolution XPS of: (b)

Ti 2p, (c) O 1s, (d) C 1s, and (e) N 1s regions for TNT photoanode.
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Figure S2. The FE-SEM image of pillus-like shaped microbials attached to the

carbon felt surface of the bio-anode.

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Figure S3. Fitted Nyquist plots from EIS measurements of hybrid-MFC and normal-

MFC under dark and AM1.5 illumination. Inset shows the proposed equivalent circuit,

where R1 is solution resistance, R2 is electron transfer resistance, and C is the

capacitance.
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Figure S4. I-V curves for normal MFC (in dark) and hybrid MFC (in light).
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Figure S5. Schematic representation of experimental setup employed for CO 2

photoreduction involving: (1) CO2 gas cylinder (1000 ppm in He); (2) Mass flow

controller; (3) Water bubbler for making CO2 gas/H2O vapor mixture; (4)

Photoreactor (Stainless Steel with quartz window, chamber volume 15.4 cm 3) loaded

with photocatalyst material (circular TNT photoanode sample with area = 7 cm2),

irradiated by simulated solar light (100 W Xe lamp providing AM1.5 simulated solar

light irradiation); and (5) Gas chromatography unit equipped with FID and TCD for

analysis of product gases.