Nafion ionomer aggregation and its influence on proton conduction and mass transport in fuel cell catalyst layers

ECS Transactions

Volumn 16, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 1811-1816

  Xie, Z ^a   Navessin, T ^a   Zhao, X ^a   Adachi, M ^a,b   Holdcroft, S ^a,b   Mashio, Tetsuya ^c   Ohma, Atsushi ^c   Shinohara, Kazuhiko ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NISSAN MOTOR CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING;

CATALYST LAYERS; DISPERSION MEDIA; FUEL-CELL CATALYST LAYERS; N-PROPYL ALCOHOL; NAFION IONOMERS; PROTON CONDUCTION;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 63149114626     PISSN: 19385862     EISSN: 19386737     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1149/1.2982022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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