Direct biomass fuel cell (BMFC) with anode/catalyst comprising a nanocomposite of a mesoporous n-semiconductor film and a metal thin layer: A new concept of catalyst design

Catalysis Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 469-479

  Kaneko, Masao ^a   Ueno, Hirohito ^a   Nemoto, Junichi ^a  

^a Institute of Biophotochemonics Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomass fuel cell; Glucose; Mesoporous semiconductor; Platinum thin layer; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; ANODE SURFACES; ATOMIC RATIO; BIAS POTENTIAL; BIOMASS FUELS; CATALYST DESIGNS; COMPOSITE ANODES; DESIGN AND CALCULATION; ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION; H2 PRODUCTION; HIGH ELECTRICAL POWER; LIGHT IRRADIATIONS; MESOPOROUS; MESOPOROUS TIO; METALLIC LUSTER; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; OUTPUT POWER; ROUGHNESS FACTOR; SCHOTTKY; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; THIN LAYERS; TIO; UV-LIGHT; WASTE FUELS;

ANODES; BIOMASS; CATHODES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FUEL CELLS; GLUCOSE; IRRADIATION; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PLATINUM; SOLUTIONS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TIN; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84861575609     PISSN: 1011372X     EISSN: 1572879X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10562-012-0783-7     Document Type: Article

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