Bruce E. Logan
Pennsylvania State University
Bruce Ernest Logan is an American civil and environmental engineer who serves as the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Evan Pugh University Professor in Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is also the director of the Institute of Energy and the Environment at Penn State. His main research interest is in the development of water infrastructure technology, and his lab has developed devices that can produce electricity from wastewater. He is also known for his work d
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Bruce Ernest Logan is an American civil and environmental engineer who serves as the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Evan Pugh University Professor in Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is also the director of the Institute of Energy and the Environment at Penn State. His main research interest is in the development of water infrastructure technology, and his lab has developed devices that can produce electricity from wastewater. He is also known for his work developing microbial fuel cells. Since 2013, he has been the editor-in-chief of Environmental Science & Technology Letters, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (2013) for microbial electrochemical technologies for wastewater treatment and sustainable energy generation.
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Pennsylvania State University
Top Publications
- Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology (2006) - 6,112 citations
- Exoelectrogenic bacteria that power microbial fuel cells (2009) - 2,415 citations
- Electricity Generation Using an Air-Cathode Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell in the Presence and Absence of a Proton Exchange Membrane (2004) - 1,994 citations
- Conversion of Wastes into Bioelectricity and Chemicals by Using Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (2012) - 1,891 citations
- Electrically conductive bacterial nanowires produced by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 and other microorganisms (2006) - 1,761 citations
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- Full name
- Bruce E. Logan
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-7478-8070
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5006144504
Research interests
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Fuel Cells and Related Materials, Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production, Electrochemical sensors and biosensors, Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
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- Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology ↗2006 · Environmental Science & Technology6,112OpenAlex citations
- Exoelectrogenic bacteria that power microbial fuel cells ↗2009 · Nature Reviews Microbiology2,415OpenAlex citations
- Electricity Generation Using an Air-Cathode Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell in the Presence and Absence of a Proton Exchange Membrane ↗2004 · Environmental Science & Technology1,994OpenAlex citations
- 1,891OpenAlex citations
- Electrically conductive bacterial nanowires produced by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 and other microorganisms ↗2006 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1,761OpenAlex citations
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- Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology ↗2006 · Environmental Science & Technology
- Exoelectrogenic bacteria that power microbial fuel cells ↗2009 · Nature Reviews Microbiology
- Electricity Generation Using an Air-Cathode Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell in the Presence and Absence of a Proton Exchange Membrane ↗2004 · Environmental Science & Technology
- Electrically conductive bacterial nanowires produced by Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 and other microorganisms ↗2006 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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