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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 39, Issue 22, Pages 11700-11705Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.05.110
Keywords
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell; GDE; CCM; Catalyst layer; Hot pressing
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- Ministry of Science and Technology (MST), R.O.C, Taiwan [102-2622-E-002-011-CC2]
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To reduce the performance difference of membrane electrode assembles (MEAs) between catalyst coated membrane (CCM) and gas diffusion electrode (GDE) methods, this study presents a novel structure of a glue-functioned Nafion layer coating on the catalyst layer of GDEs to enhance performance. The process of hot pressing is omitted from the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) fabrication in this study. In exploring the effect of the glue-functioned Nafion layer, five MEAs are compared, including one made by the CCM method and four by the GDE method. Loadings of 0, 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 mg cm(-2) of glue-functioned Nafion layer are coated on the surface of the catalyst layer at room temperature with a condensed Nafion solution (20 wt%). The performance of the 0.3 mg cm(-2) Nafion layer coating improves 55% compared with that without an extra Nafion layer for the peak power density, and the performance difference reduces from 61.2% to 39.4% when compared with the one using the CCM method. However, the performance of the 0.5 mg cm(-2) Nafion layer coating is almost the same as without the Nafion layer. This indicates that increased Nafion cannot guarantee higher performance. Copyright (C) 2014, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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