Organic silica/Nafion® composite membrane for direct methanol fuel cells

Fuel Cells Bulletin

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 12-16

  Ren, Suzhen ^a   Sun, Gongquan ^a   Li, Chennan ^a   Liang, Zhenxing ^a   Wu, Zhimou ^a   Jin, Wei ^a   Qin, Xin ^a   Yang, Xuefeng ^b  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; FUEL CELLS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANES; METHANOL FUELS; SILICA;

DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL (DMFC); NAFION COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; ORGANIC SILICA;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33845655642     PISSN: 14642859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-2859(06)71286-X     Document Type: Article

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