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JOURNAL OF COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 272-278Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cc0498581
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A 40-member array of direct methanol fuel cells (with stationary fuel and convective air supplies) was generated by electrically connecting the fuel cells in series. High-throughput analysis of these fuel cells was realized by fast screening of voltages between the two terminals of a fuel cell at constant current discharge. A large number of voltage-current curves (200) were obtained by screening the voltages through multiple small-current steps. Gaussian distribution was used to statistically analyze the large number of experimental data. The standard deviation (a) of voltages of these fuel cells increased linearly with discharge current. The voltage-current curves at various fuel concentrations were simulated with an empirical equation of voltage versus current and a linear equation of a versus current. The simulated voltage-current curves fitted the experimental data well. With increasing methanol concentration from 0.5 to 4.0 M, the Tafel slope of the voltage-current curves (at sigma = 0.0), changed from 28 to 91 mV(.)dec(-1), the cell resistance from 2.91 to 0.18 Omega, and the power output from 3 to 18 mW(.)cm(-2).
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