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Review

Biocatalytic generation of power from biofuels: biofuel cells

Hongfei Jia Materials Research Department, Toyota Research Institute of North America, Ann. Arbor, MI, 48105, USA. [email protected]
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Ping Wang Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering; Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Pages 479-492 | Published online: 09 Apr 2014

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