The distribution of paramagnetic centres in carbon black filler in the interphase layer of the thiokol-epoxy hermetics on the border of brass or glass substrate was studied using EPR· imaging method. It was shown that the relative content of radicals decreases near the hermetic-"rigid" surface contact border. The thickness of the layer with a low concentration of radicals is estimated as 0.5±0.3 mm, The inhomogeneous distribution of radicals is more obvious in the case of hermetic hardening on a brass surface. These results are explained by a catalytic acceleration of the thiokol-epoxy polymerization reaction in the region of hermetic-metal surface contact.
Environmentally friendly non‐PGM (platinum group metal) anode catalyst made of nickel pectate, the biological raw material, was developed and tested in proton‐exchange‐membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). 5.2 mA cm‐2 and 1.5 mW cm‐2, the maximum current density and the maximum power density of the developed catalyst, respectively, correspond to sufficiently high values of these characteristics for PEMFC with an anode without a PGM catalyst and a cathode with a platinum one.
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