Investigation of bipolar plate and diffusion media interfacial structure in PEFCs: A fractal geometry approach

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3060-3070

  Swamy, Tushar ^a   Kumbur, E C ^b   Mench, M M ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar plate; Contact resistance; Diffusion media; Interface; Polymer electrolyte fuel cell

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR PLATES; CURRENT TRANSPORT; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL MODELING; INTERFACE; INTERFACIAL CONTACT; INTERFACIAL STRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL WATER; KEY PARAMETERS; LIQUID WATER; LOCAL COMPRESSION; MATING MATERIALS; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; MODEL RESULTS; OPTICAL PROFILOMETRY; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SURFACE DATA; SURFACE PROFILES; VOID SPACE;

CONTACT RESISTANCE; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; FRACTALS; FUEL CELLS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHASE INTERFACES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYMERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 79952440561     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2010.12.068     Document Type: Article

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