Fuel cells: principles, types, fuels, and applications

L Carrette, KA Friedrich, U Stimming - ChemPhysChem, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade, fuel cells have received enormous attention from research
institutions and companies as novel electrical energy conversion systems. In the near future …

Mass transport phenomena in direct methanol fuel cells

TS Zhao, C Xu, R Chen, WW Yang - Progress in energy and Combustion …, 2009 - Elsevier
Clean and highly efficient energy production has long been sought to solve energy and
environmental problems. Fuel cells, which convert the chemical energies stored in fuel …

Fuel cells-fundamentals and applications

L Carrette, KA Friedrich, U Stimming - Fuel cells, 2001 - osti.gov
Fuel cells will make a valuable contribution to future power generation facilities. They
improve the flexibility and increase the options for many applications, such as distributed …

Methanol crossover in direct methanol fuel cells: a link between power and energy density

B Gurau, ES Smotkin - Journal of Power Sources, 2002 - Elsevier
Direct methanol fuel cell performance curves were obtained as a function of three
parameters,(1) temperature,(2) fuel flow-rate and (3) concentration. Methanol crossover was …

New membranes for direct methanol fuel cells

L Jörissen, V Gogel, J Kerres, J Garche - Journal of Power Sources, 2002 - Elsevier
The performance of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) is limited by the cross-over of
methanol through the electrolyte. Electrolyte membranes prepared by blending of sulfonated …

Experimental studies of a direct methanol fuel cell

J Ge, H Liu - Journal of Power Sources, 2005 - Elsevier
Systematic experiments have been conducted to study the effects of various operating
parameters on the performances of a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). The effects of cell …

A miniature methanol/air polymer electrolyte fuel cell

SC Kelley, GA Deluga, WH Smyrl - Electrochemical and Solid …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
A design for a miniaturized (0.25 cm2 active area) methanol/air polymer electrolyte fuel cell
(PEFC) is described. The design incorporates all the basic parts of a large methanol/air …

Oxygen electroreduction on carbon-supported platinum catalysts. Particle-size effect on the tolerance to methanol competition

F Maillard, M Martin, F Gloaguen, JM Leger - Electrochimica Acta, 2002 - Elsevier
The kinetics of oxygen reduction in methanol-containing acid electrolyte was investigated at
platinum-based electrodes using the porous rotating disk electrodes (RDE) technique …

Performance analysis of polymer electrolyte membranes for direct methanol fuel cells

F Lufrano, V Baglio, P Staiti, V Antonucci - Journal of Power Sources, 2013 - Elsevier
The status of research and development of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) for direct
methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) is described. Perfluorosulfonic acid membranes, eg Nafion, are …

Pd/Cu bimetallic nanoparticles supported on graphene nanosheets: facile synthesis and application as novel electrocatalyst for ethanol oxidation in alkaline media

Q Dong, Y Zhao, X Han, Y Wang, M Liu, Y Li - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Well distributed Pd/Cu bimetallic nanoparticles supported on graphene nanosheets
as novel electrocatalyst has been prepared via a facile synthetic method: started with an …