Rapid prototyping of PEM fuel cell bi-polar plates using 3D printing and thermal spray deposition

16th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, SFF 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 446-457

  Lyons, Brett ^a   Batalov, Marat ^b   Mohanty, Pranavasu ^b   Das, Suman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; PRINTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; COMPLEX DESIGNS; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FUNCTIONAL FLOW; MATERIAL CHOICE; NOVEL METHODS; PEM FUEL CELL; THERMAL SPRAY DEPOSITION;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 79957633779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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