Durability challenges and perspective in the development of PGM-free electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

U Martinez, SK Babu, EF Holby, P Zelenay - Current Opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Significant advancement in the development of highly active platinum group metal-free
(PGM-free) electrocatalysts is giving rise to the possibility of a low-cost replacement for Pt …

Physical and chemical considerations for improving catalytic activity and stability of non-precious-metal oxygen reduction reaction catalysts

K Kumar, P Gairola, M Lions, N Ranjbar-Sahraie… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Recent non-precious-metal catalysts (NPMCs) show promise to replace in the future
platinum-based catalysts currently needed for the electroreduction of oxygen (ORR) in …

Nanoscale simulation of local gas transport in catalyst layers of proton exchange membrane fuel cells

L Chen, R Zhang, P He, Q Kang, YL He… - Journal of Power Sources, 2018 - Elsevier
Reducing Platinum amount in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is one of the
main tasks to achieve low cost PEMFC. Recently, significant performance loss has been …

Effects of Pt and ionomer ratios on the structure of catalyst layer: A theoretical model for polymer electrolyte fuel cells

H Ishikawa, Y Sugawara, G Inoue, M Kawase - Journal of Power Sources, 2018 - Elsevier
The 3D structure of the catalyst layer (CL) in the polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) is
modeled with a Pt/carbon (Pt/C) ratio of 0.4–2.3 and ionomer/carbon (i/C) ratio of 0.5–1.5 …

Pore scale study of multiphase multicomponent reactive transport during CO2 dissolution trapping

L Chen, M Wang, Q Kang, W Tao - Advances in water resources, 2018 - Elsevier
Solubility trapping is crucial for permanent CO 2 sequestration in deep saline aquifers. For
the first time, a pore-scale numerical method is developed to investigate coupled scCO 2 …

Lattice Boltzmann simulation of mass transfer coefficients for chemically reactive flows in porous media

A Xu, TS Zhao, L Shi, JB Xu - Journal of Heat …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
We present lattice Boltzmann (LB) simulations for the mass transfer coefficient from bulk
flows to pore surfaces in chemically reactive flows for both ordered and disordered porous …

Computational prediction of nanoscale transport characteristics and catalyst utilization in fuel cell catalyst layers by the lattice Boltzmann method

S Shin, AR Kim, S Um - Electrochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present study, a three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model based on the quasi-
random nanostructural model is proposed to evaluate the mass transport properties and …

Apparent contact angles of liquid water droplet breaking through a gas diffusion layer of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

J Yu, D Froning, U Reimer, W Lehnert - International journal of hydrogen …, 2018 - Elsevier
The lattice Boltzmann method is used to simulate the three-dimensional dynamic process of
liquid water breaking through the gas diffusion layer (GDL) in the polymer electrolyte …

Lattice Boltzmann method for conjugated heat and mass transfer with general interfacial conditions

YT Mu, ZL Gu, P He, WQ Tao - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
A general interfacial treatment for the transport process in multicomponent systems
governed by the convection-diffusion equation, together with conjugated interfaces where …

A mesoscopic model for transient mass transfer of volatile organic compounds from porous walls of different structures

Y Su, T Ng, Y Zhang, JH Davidson - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2018 - Elsevier
Transient mass diffusion and convection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from walls is
an important issue for air quality in buildings. In the present work, a new model of these …