A technical review on gas diffusion, mechanism and medium of PEM fuel cell

Ionics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Jayakumar, Arunkumar ^a   Sethu, Sundar Pethaiah ^b   Ramos, Maximiano ^a   Robertson, John ^a   Al Jumaily, Ahmed ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b TUM CREATE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbon cloth; Carbon paper; Gas diffusion layer; Membrane electrode assembly; Microporous layer; PEM fuel cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941942517     PISSN: 09477047     EISSN: 18620760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11581-014-1322-x     Document Type: Review

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