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MFCrg receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations funding for their ground-breaking urine work

The team has now been awarded a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant, under the Grand Challenges Explorations scheme (Round 7), which will focus on producing electricity directly from urine, for developing countries. This award comes to complement the ongoing research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under Dr. Ieropoulos's CAF (EP/I004653/1), which is developing the Microbial Fuel Cell technology for utilising waste to produce useful levels of electricity for EcoBots and other practical applications. The world's first article on urine utilisation for electricity generation has recently been published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and featured in the Chemistry World, the UWE News page and Bulletin and the Royal Society of Chemistry website.

The MFCrg is part of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of the West of England . We carry out research into improving the performance of microbial fuel cells and into their applications, including autonomous, self-fuelling robots.

Contacts

The MFCrg - Dr. Ioannis Ieropoulos

Technical and website - Andy Cowley