Performance and durability of PEMFC MEAs fabricated by various methods

Korean Chemical Engineering Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 558-563

  Jeong, Jaehyeun ^a   Song, Myunghyun ^a   Chung, Hoibum ^a   Na, Ilchai ^b   Lee, Junghoon ^b   Lee, Ho ^b   Park, Kwonpil ^a  

^a Sunchon National University   (South Korea)

^b CNL Energy Co   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Degradation; Fabrication; MEA; PEMFC; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908123890     PISSN: 0304128X     EISSN: 22339558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9713/kcer.2014.52.5.558     Document Type: Article

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