Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 196, Issue 1, Pages 186-190Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.05.069
Keywords
Glucose; Non-platinum catalyst; Anion-exchange membrane; Direct oxidation fuel cell; Power density; Operating conditions
Funding
- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [623008]
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Glucose is a potential fuel for fuel cells because it is renewable, abundant, non-toxic, and easy in handle and store. Conventional glucose fuel cells that use enzymes and micro-organisms as the catalyst are limited by their extremely low power output and rather short durability. In this work, a direct glucose fuel cell that uses an anion-exchange membrane and in-house non-platinum electrocatalysts is developed. It is shown that this type of direct glucose fuel cell with a relatively cheap membrane and catalysts can result in a maximum power density as high as 38 mW cm(-2) at 60 degrees C. The high performance is attributed mainly to the increased kinetics of both the glucose oxidation reaction and the oxygen reduction reaction rendered by the alkaline medium with the anion-exchange membrane. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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