Freeze-dried solid foams prepared from carbon nanotube aqueous suspension: Application to gas diffusion layers of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-30

  Nakagawa, Kyuya ^a   Yasumura, Yoshinaga ^a   Thongprachan, Napawon ^b   Sano, Noriaki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Freeze drying; Fuel cell; Ice crystal; Microstructure; Porous media

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SUSPENSIONS; CARBON FOAM; CARBON NETWORK; CARBON PAPER; CELL PERFORMANCE; FOAM MATERIAL; FREEZE-DRYING; FREEZING PROCESS; GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS; ICE CRYSTAL; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY SCALE; MACROPOROUS; OHMIC RESISTANCE; POROUS MEDIA; RESISTANCE VALUES; SOLID FOAM;

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DIFFUSION IN GASES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; FILM PREPARATION; FREEZING; LOW TEMPERATURE DRYING; MEMBRANES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); OHMIC CONTACTS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); PROTONS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

FOAMS;

EID: 79251594514     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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