The electrical resistance of flexible graphite as flowfield plate in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Carbon

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-23

  Fu, Yu ^a,b   Hou, Ming ^a   liang, Dong ^a,b   Yan, Xiqiang ^c   Fu, Yunfeng ^c   Shao, Zhigang ^a   Hou, Zhongjun ^c   Ming, Pingwen ^c   Yi, Baolian ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Sunrise Power Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); WATER CONTENT;

GAS CHANNELS; GRAPHITE FLOWFIELD PLATES; METAL FOILS;

GRAPHITE;

EID: 38649115662     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.10.020     Document Type: Article

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