期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
卷 44, 期 7, 页码 3603-3614出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.12.016
关键词
Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell; Catalyst layer; Electronic conductivity; Microstructure; Anisotropy; Structure-property correlations
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through NSERC Collaborative Research Development Grant [31-614105]
In this work, novel procedures are developed to measure in-plane and through-plane electronic conductivities of catalyst layers (CLs) for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. The developed procedures are used in a parametric study on different CL designs to investigate effects of different composition and fabrication parameters, including ionomer to carbon weight ratio (I/C ratio), dry milling time of the catalyst powder, and drying temperature of the catalyst ink. Results show that CLs have anisotropic electronic conductivity with through-plane values being three orders of magnitude lower than the in-plane values. The reason for this anisotropy is speculated to be alignment of fibrillar nanostructures of ionomer by large shear forces during coating, which could result in better carbon-carbon contact in the in-plane direction. A simple order of magnitude analysis shows the significance of poor through-plane conduction for fuel cell performance. (C) 2018 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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