Layer by layer assembly of hybrid nanoparticle coatings for proton exchange membrane fuel cell bipolar plates

Journal of Power Sources

Volumn 195, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 7054-7060

  Wang, Feng ^a   Alazemi, Mubarak ^a   Dutta, Indrajit ^a   Blunk, Richard H ^b   Angelopoulos, Anastasios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar plates; Coatings; Layer by layer assembly; Nanotechnology; Thin films

Indexed keywords

ADVANCING CONTACT ANGLE; AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; BIPOLAR PLATES; CATIONIC POLYELECTROLYTE; COATING THICKNESS; DOMAIN DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRICAL CONTACT RESISTANCE; GOLD SUBSTRATES; GRAPHITE PLATELETS; GRAPHITE SURFACES; HETEROGENEOUS NANOPARTICLES; HYBRID COATING; HYBRID NANOPARTICLE; LAYER BY LAYER ASSEMBLY; LAYER-BY-LAYER ASSEMBLIES; LAYERED STRUCTURES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PEM FUEL CELL; POWER-LOSSES; PURE SILICA; REACTANT GAS; SILICA NANOSPHERES; THICK COATINGS; TRIMETHYL; WELL-ESTABLISHED TECHNIQUES;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BLOOD SUBSTITUTES; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTACT RESISTANCE; DYES; GRAPHITE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHILICITY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLATELETS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); PROTONS; SILICA; STOICHIOMETRY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THIN FILMS;

COATINGS;

EID: 77953687479     PISSN: 03787753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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