Correlation between performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell and degradation of the carbon support in the membrane electrode assembly using image processing method

Potential of sodium alginate/titanium oxide biomembrane nanocomposite in DMFC application

“…In addition, high efficiency in the process of energy conversion as well as non-combustion processes have reduced greenhouse gas emissions causing DMFCs to be interested in addressing environmental issues. [7][8][9][10] Nafion membranes are currently used because of their advantages over other membranes like excellent conductivity of proton, noble chemical, and physical stability. [2][3][4][5][6] The membrane electrolyte assemble is the most important part of the DMFC and consists of electrodes (anodes and cathodes) that function as a centre for reactions and membranes that separate the anode and cathode; the membranes also serve as a barrier to the methanol trajectory as well as a pathway for protons, which are very important conductive agents.…”

“…[2][3][4][5][6] The membrane electrolyte assemble is the most important part of the DMFC and consists of electrodes (anodes and cathodes) that function as a centre for reactions and membranes that separate the anode and cathode; the membranes also serve as a barrier to the methanol trajectory as well as a pathway for protons, which are very important conductive agents. [7][8][9][10] Nafion membranes are currently used because of their advantages over other membranes like excellent conductivity of proton, noble chemical, and physical stability. [11][12][13] Unfortunately, there are major disadvantages that prevent the continued commercialization of Nafion, which are expensive cost production and high crossover of methanol problems, which result in the loss of fuel and potential mixture on the cathode side, thereby reducing DMFC's overall performance.…”

Cell voltage monitoring All-in-One. A new low cost solution to perform degradation analysis on air-cooled polymer electrolyte fuel cells

“…In this sense, demonstrations show that the operation of fuel cells under low and high current density conditions can increase the carbon corrosion process on bipolar plates, causing changes in the mechanical structure of the platinum support [11,13e15]; as well as the agglomeration of the platinum particles with the consequent active surface loss [8,13,16,17]. Alternatively, carbon corrosion will result in poor management of the flow of gases in the bipolar plates with the resultant lost due to mass transfer [16,18,19].…”

Correlation between the surface characteristics of carbon supports and their electrochemical stability and performance in fuel cell cathodes

“…Carbon can also be oxidised to carbon monoxide (CO) (2) and further to CO 2 in the presence of water (3) 8 :…”

“…24 Therefore, an increasing interest and need is emerging to correlate surface and structure properties of carbon supports with the performance and stability to corrosion of the corresponding PEMFC cathodes. 6,8 In this study, carbons with a similar surface area but different surface chemistries were used as supports for the deposition of Pt nanoparticles synthesised by the microwaveassisted polyol-mediated method. [25][26][27] Morphological, structural, textural and surface chemical properties of the carbon support and the corresponding electrocatalysts were investigated.…”