Development and evaluation of electrode-membrane-electrode assemblies for high efficiency fuel cells.
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A fuel cell is a device to directly convert the chemical energy of a fuel like hydrogen or hydrogen-rich alcohols into electricity. This conversion is in an efficient and non-polluting way. The core of the fuel cell is composed by 5 layers, which are closely interrelated. These parts are the proton exchange membrane, the gas diffusion layers and catalyst layers from the anode and cathode. In this work, we present membrane-electrode assemblies and evaluate they performances in the laboratory in a self-made fuel cell hardware.
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