Enhanced performance of a silicon microfabricated direct methanol fuel cell with PtRu catalysts supported on few-walled carbon nanotubes

Energy

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 612-620

  Borghei, Maryam ^a   Scotti, Gianmario ^b   Kanninen, Petri ^a   Weckman, Timo ^a   Anoshkin, Ilya V ^a   Nasibulin, Albert G ^a   Franssila, Sami ^b   Kauppinen, Esko I ^a   Kallio, Tanja ^a   Ruiz, Virginia ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Department of Materials Science and Engineering ^*  (Finland)

^c Centro de Investigacion Tecnologica En Electroquimica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Direct Methanol; Durability; PtRu catalysts; Silicon micro fuel cell

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); DURABILITY; MICROELECTRONICS; PLATINUM ALLOYS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BRUNAUER EMMETT TELLERS; DIRECT METHANOL; FEW-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; MICROELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; MICROFUEL CELL; PTRU CATALYSTS; TEM (TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY); XRD (X RAY DIFFRACTION);

CATALYST SUPPORTS;

CATALYSIS; CATALYST; FUEL CELL; FULLERENE; GRAPHITE; METHANOL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER;

EID: 84893005140     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.11.067     Document Type: Article

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