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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for increasing an output of a microbial fuel cell.SOLUTION: There is provided a microbial fuel cell using a polyol, such as glycerol, as fuel, and microbes, in which an enzyme catalyzing an oxidation-reduction reaction is introduced by genetic modification, on the negative electrode side. In the microbial fuel cell, a high output can be obtained by maintaining the microbes, in which an enzyme, such as diaphorase, catalyzing an oxidation-reduction reaction is introduced by genetic modification, on the negative electrode side, thereby accelerating a rate of the reaction.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photoconductor which can prevent the carriers excited by light from disappearing by recombination while enhancing photoelectric conversion efficiency, and to provide a photoelectric conversion element using the photoconductor.SOLUTION: The photoconductor is formed of a composite of a conductive polymer and/or a polymer semiconductor 11, and one or a plurality of proteins 12 containing at least one dye 12a having a long life excited state. The dye 12a becomes a luminescence center. The conductive polymer and/or a polymer semiconductor 11 is formed in network. The conductive polymer and/or a polymer semiconductor 11 and the protein 12 are bonded by non-covalent bond or covalent bond. A photoelectric conversion element is configured by connecting first and second electrodes electrically to different parts of the conductive polymer and/or a polymer semiconductor 11 in network of the photoconductor.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-power bio fuel cell capable of improving electrode performance without reduction of electrode surface area, physical stability, and liquid permeability.SOLUTION: A bio fuel cell 10 comprises: an anode (negative electrode) 1 that is a fuel electrode, an anode current collector 4, a separator 3, a cathode current collector 5, a cathode (positive electrode) 2 that is an air electrode, and a gas-liquid separation membrane 6, which are arranged, in the order, between a fuel tank 7 and a positive electrode cover 8. In the bio fuel cell 10, an electrode which is made of a carbon fiber cloth forming a network structure with a single fiber bundle of carbon fibers and of which an oxidoreductase exists on the surface is used at least for the anode 1.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell capable of suppressing insects from swarming around in the case of the leakage of a fuel solution. SOLUTION: The fuel cell has a living thing repelling performance by vegetable essential oil and/or its component. The living thing repelling performance by the vegetable essential oil can be obtained by including the vegetable essential oil in fuel or by being applied to at least a part of the case. In the fuel cell, it possible to effectively suppress insects from swarming around on the fuel solution by the living thing repelling performance of the vegetable essential oil even if a compound which can be a biological nutrient is used as a fuel and such a fuel solution causes leakage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel protein which has extremely high stability to the irradiation with light and has a long-lasting photoelectric conversion function, and also to provide a protein photoelectric conversion element which is stably used over a long period of time using the same. SOLUTION: Iron, which is a metal located at the center of a heme of horse heart cytochrome c, is substituted by tin to produce tin-substituted horse heart cytochrome c. Iron, which is a metal located at the center of a heme of bovine heart cytochrome c, is substituted by tin to produce tin-substituted bovine heart cytochrome c. A protein 22 comprising the tin-substituted horse heart cytochrome c or the tin-substituted bovine heart cytochrome c is immobilized on an electrode 21 to produce a protein-immobilized electrode. A protein photoelectric conversion element is formed by using the protein-immobilized electrode. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell that improves current density and its maintenance rate when at least glucose dehydrogenase and diaphorase are fixed on a negative electrode by a fixing material consisting of poly-L-lysine and glutaraldehyde. SOLUTION: The fuel cell has a structure in which the positive electrode 2 and the negative electrode 1 are opposed through an electrolyte layer 3, and the negative electrode 1 has at least glucose dehydrogenase and diaphorase fixed by a fixing material consisting of poly-L-lysine and glutaraldehyde. The mass ratio of poly-L-lysine and glutaraldehyde in the fixing material is 5:1-80:1, the mass ratio of glucose dehydrogenase and diaphorase is 1:3-200:1, and the average molecular weight of the poly-L-lysine is made ≥21,500. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an enzyme immobilizing method which can acquire a high catalyzer current value without causing an enzyme to degrade its activity when immobilizing the enzyme to an electrode. SOLUTION: The enzyme immobilizing method is the one for immobilizing an enzyme to an electrode used for fuel cells. The enzyme immobilizing method which immobilizes the enzyme whose activity can be improved by its heat treatment to the electrode within the temperature scope capable of improving the activity is provided. In addition to this, a fuel cell using this enzyme immobilizing method, an electrode for the fuel cell, and manufacturing methods of them are provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mobile body superior in safety and with less environmental load. SOLUTION: As a power source of the mobile body 1, an enzyme battery 2 is mounted to generate electric power, in which an oxidation-reduction enzyme is immobilized at least on one electrode out of a cathode and an anode as a catalyst, oxidation reaction of fuel is generated at the cathode to discharge electrons, and reduction reaction progresses at the anode by these electrons and oxygen supplied from outside. Moreover, together with the enzyme battery 2, a fuel generation part in which biomass fuel such as saccharide, protein, fat, and carbohydrate from a biomass raw material such as food waste is formed, and a fuel introduction part in which the formed biomass fuel is introduced into the enzyme battery 2 can also be mounted on this mobile body 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell and its manufacturing method wherein output is improved by optimization of a negative electrode structure. SOLUTION: In the fuel cell having a structure in which a positive electrode 2 and a negative electrode 1 are opposed to each other via a proton conductor 3, and of which at least the negative electrode 1 is consisting of an enzyme-immobilized electrode 11, a porous electrode having at least one through-hole 12 or non-through-hole is used as the electrode 11. Enzyme, coenzyme, and an electronic mediator are immobilized on the electrode 11. The diameter of the through-hole 12 or the non-through-hole is set to 1 mm or less, and the spacing of the through-holes or the non-through-holes is set to 2 mm or less. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an independent fluid device that does not require an external power supply. SOLUTION: A pump 5, for feeding a sample solution which is a measuring object to a flow channel 3, is disposed at a start edge of the flow channel 3 formed on a substrate 2. A detecting section 6 for detecting the sample solution or a component contained therein, is disposed on the way of the flow channel 3, and an outlet 7 for discharging the analyzed sample solution, is disposed at an end edge of the flow channel 3. Furthermore, an enzyme battery 4 is disposed on the substrate 2, as a power source for driving the pump 5 and the detecting section 6, and the pump 5 and the detecting section 6 are electrically connected to the enzyme battery 4. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT