Fuel cells represent a clean alternative to current technologies for utilizing hydrocarbon fuel resources. Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have acquired due importance as they are best suited for applications where a quick start up is required such as in automobiles. The prime requirements of fuel cell membranes are high proton conductivity, low methanol/water permeability, goo...

Identical location transmission electron microscopy (IL-TEM) is a powerful technique that has previously been used to study degradation of catalyst materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) in half-cell...

This article presents the results of a numerical study, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis to investigate the species distribution of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) with deflected membrane electrode assembly (MEA). These new geometry were examined while employing three-dimensional, single phase, non-isothermal and parallel flow for model of a PEM fuel cell. This num...

The optimized hydrocarbon catalyst layer enables high performance in higher potentials (0.7 V) and peak power density under hot dry operation conditions.

We report here a novel proton exchange membrane with remarkably high methanol-permeation resistivity and excellent proton conductivity enabled by carefully designed self-assembled ionic conductive channels. A direct methanol fuel cell utilizing the membrane performs well with a 20 M methanol solution, very close to the concentration of neat methanol.

Exchange of intracellular sodium for extracellular lithium readily occurs in vascular smooth muscle, but the mechanism of this exchange is not known. These studies examined whether a sodium-lithium countertransport system was present in the cell membrane of vascular smooth muscle. A sarcolemmal-enriched vesicle preparation was obtained from canine superior mesenteric artery via a magnesium aggr...

Improving Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell durability is a key that paves the way to its large scale industrial deployment. During last five years, prognostics discipline emerged as an interesting field for state of health prediction and lifetime estimation. The information provided by prognostic module crucial optimizing control strategy extend fuel cell lifetime. In this paper, approach bas...