Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 37, Issue 23, Pages 18471-18475Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.09.017
Keywords
Electroless plating; Polycarbonate; Air-breathing; Monopolar stack; Thin-film current collector; Polymer electrolyte fuel cell
Categories
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology in Korea [2011-0029576]
- SNU-IAMD
- Brain Korea 21 Program
Ask authors/readers for more resources
For portable applications of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), multilayer metal-coated polycarbonate (PC) monopolar plates were developed as both an anode and a cathode plate using electroless plating and electroplating methods. The multilayer is composed of electroless-plated 10-mu m thick copper, electroplated 40-mu m thick copper, electroplated 1-mu m thick nickel and electroplated100-nm of gold layer to ensure good adhesion, high conductivity, corrosion resistance and low cost. Through selective plating on PC plates, air-breathing stacks using PC monopolar structure was easily assembled without additional current collector parts. Planar stack was demonstrated with PC plates to obtain the OCV and maximum power of the stack at 2.85 V and 7.18 W, respectively. Copyright (c) 2012, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available