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Alain Bergel is a researcher affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their academic work spans across engineering and environmental science with a focus on the interdisciplinary fields of electrical and electronic engineering, environmental engineering, and electrochemistry.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science

Within these areas, their subfields of expertise are:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Electrochemistry
  • Molecular Biology

Alain Bergel's research frequently addresses topics in microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, electrochemical sensors and biosensors, and supercapacitor materials and fabrication. Other explored subjects include electrochemical analysis and applications, advanced battery technologies, neuroscience and neural engineering, and planarian biology and electrostimulation.

Prominent research topics covered by the scientist are:

  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation

The scientist has published multiple papers in well-known journals, often contributing to studies on microbial electrolysis cells, electrochemical systems, and bacterial behavior. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC): A step ahead towards hydrogen-evolving cathode operated at high current density," 2020, Bioresource Technology Reports
  • "How Comparable are Microbial Electrochemical Systems around the Globe? An Electrochemical and Microbiological Cross-Laboratory Study," 2021, ChemSusChem
  • "How bacteria use electric fields to reach surfaces," 2021, Biofilm
  • "Theoretical analysis of the electrochemical systems used for the application of direct current/voltage stimuli on cell cultures," 2021, Bioelectrochemistry
  • "Design of 3D microbial anodes for microbial electrolysis cells (MEC) fuelled by domestic wastewater. Part I: Multiphysics modelling," 2021, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Their research outputs are regularly published in several scientific venues including:

  • ChemSusChem
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Bioresource Technology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaboration forms an important part of Alain Bergel's work, with frequent co-authors being Benjamin Erable, Luc Etcheverry, Simon Guette-Marquet, Christine Roques, and Morgane Hoareau.

Best Publications

  • Marine microbial fuel cell: Use of stainless steel electrodes as anode and cathode materials

    Claire Dumas;Alfonso Mollica;Damien Féron;Régine Basséguy

  • Catalysis of oxygen reduction in PEM fuel cell by seawater biofilm

    Alain Bergel;Damien Féron;Alfonso Mollica

  • Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC): Strengths, weaknesses and research needs from electrochemical engineering standpoint

    Raphaël Rousseau;Luc Etcheverry;Emma Roubaud;Régine Basséguy

  • Importance of the hydrogen route in up-scaling electrosynthesis for microbial CO2 reduction

    Elise Blanchet;François Duquenne;Yan Rafrafi;Luc Etcheverry

  • Microbial Catalysis of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction for Microbial Fuel Cells: A Review

    Benjamin Erable;Damien Féron;Alain Bergel

  • Stainless steel is a promising electrode material for anodes of microbial fuel cells

    Diana Pocaznoi;Amandine Calmet;Luc Etcheverry;Benjamin Erable

  • Microbial electrocatalysis with Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilm on stainless steel cathodes

    Claire Dumas;Régine Basseguy;Alain Bergel

  • Electrochemical activity of Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms on stainless steel anodes

    Claire Dumas;Régine Basseguy;Alain Bergel

  • Ion transport in microbial fuel cells: Key roles, theory and critical review

    Manon Oliot;Sylvain Galier;Hélène Roux de Balmann;Alain Bergel

  • Testing various food-industry wastes for electricity production in microbial fuel cell

    Bibiana Cercado-Quezada;Marie-Line Delia;Alain Bergel

  • Electrochemical reduction of oxygen catalyzed by a wide range of bacteria including Gram-positive

    Amandine Cournet;Marie-Line Délia;Alain Bergel;Christine Roques

  • Marine aerobic biofilm as biocathode catalyst.

    Benjamin Erable;Ilse Vandecandelaere;Marco Faimali;Marie-Line Delia

  • Potential applications of NAD(P)-dependent oxidoreductases in synthesis: A survey

    R. Devaux-Basseguy;A. Bergel;M. Comtat

  • Stainless steel foam increases the current produced by microbial bioanodes in bioelectrochemical systems

    Stéphanie F. Ketep;Alain Bergel;Amandine Calmet;Benjamin Erable

  • Hydrogen production by electrolysis of a phosphate solution on a stainless steel cathode

    Leonardo De Silva Muñoz;Alain Bergel;Damien Féron;Régine Basséguy

  • Increased power from a two-chamber microbial fuel cell with a low-pH air-cathode compartment

    Benjamin Erable;Luc Etcheverry;Alain Bergel

  • From microbial fuel cell (MFC) to microbial electrochemical snorkel (MES): maximizing chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal from wastewater

    Benjamin Erable;Luc Etcheverry;Alain Bergel

  • Checking graphite and stainless anodes with an experimental model of marine microbial fuel cell

    Claire Dumas;Alfonso Mollica;Damien Féron;Régine Basseguy

  • Microbial bioanodes with high salinity tolerance for microbial fuel cells and microbial electrolysis cells

    Raphael Rousseau;Xochitl Dominguez-Benetton;Marie-Line Délia;Alain Bergel

  • Electrochemical reduction of CO2 catalysed by Geobacter sulfurreducens grown on polarized stainless steel cathodes

    Laurence Soussan;Julien Riess;Benjamin Erable;Marie-Line Delia

  • Electrochemical reduction of oxygen on glassy carbon: catalysis by catalase

    M.E. Lai;A. Bergel

Frequent Co-Authors

Wafa Achouak
Wafa Achouak French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Peter Vandamme
Peter Vandamme Ghent University
Plamen Atanassov
Plamen Atanassov University of California, Irvine
Carole Rossi
Carole Rossi Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Hans G. Schlegel
Hans G. Schlegel University of Göttingen
Falk Harnisch
Falk Harnisch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Uwe Schröder
Uwe Schröder University of Greifswald
Carlo Santoro
Carlo Santoro University of Milano-Bicocca
Marco Faimali
Marco Faimali National Research Council (CNR)
Alexey Serov
Alexey Serov University of New Mexico

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