Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 196, Issue 20, Pages 8500-8508Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2011.06.024
Keywords
Membrane electrode assembly (MEA); Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC); Gas diffusion layer (GDL); Gas diffusion electrode (GDE); Ultrasound
Funding
- Advantage West Midlands (AWM)
- Birmingham Science City Initiative
- EPSRC [EP/E034888/1]
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A novel ultrasonic-spray method for preparing gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is described. Platinum (Pt) loaded on Nafion (R)-bonded GDEs were prepared by the ultrasonic-spray method on various commercial woven and non-woven gas diffusion layers (GDLs) at several Pt loadings in the range of 0.40-0.05 mg cm(-2). The ultrasonic-sprayed GDEs were tested and compared to commercial and hand-painted GDEs. It was found that the GDEs prepared by the ultrasonic-spray method exhibited better performances compared to those prepared by the hand-painting technique, especially at low Pt loadings. GDEs fabricated by the ultrasonic-spray method with a platinum loading of 0.05 mg cm(-2) exhibited a peak power rating of 10.9 W mg(-1) compared to 9.8 W mg(-1) for hand-painted GDEs. For all experiments using various GDLs, Sigracet SGL 10BC exhibited the best performance with a peak power of 0.695W cm(-2). (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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