Nuclear magnetic resonance microimaging investigation of membrane electrode assembly of fuel cells: morphology and solvent dynamics

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 871-878

  Wu, Zhen ^a   Wu, Chien Shun ^b   Chu, Peter Po Jen ^b   Ding, Shangwu ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chemical shift selection; Diffusion; Fuel cell; Magnetic resonance microimaging; Membrane electrode assembly (MEA); Morphology; Relaxation; Weighting

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; METHANOL; NANOMATERIAL; SOLVENT; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROELECTRODE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY; SOLVENTS;

EID: 67349123131     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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