Performance of Microtubular DMFCs
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by The Electrochemical Society in Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters
- Vol. 7 (11), A389-A390
- https://doi.org/10.1149/1.1799951
Abstract
A novel design for a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) is proposed using a microtubular electrolyte. The performance of microtubular DMFCs was tested under several preparation conditions. We show that the catalyst layer composition and the hot-pressing process are critical to microtubular DMFC performance. The results show that microtubular DMFCs are able to perform as well as normal flat DMFCs in terms of power density. A peak power density of was achieved with an air-breathing microtubular DMFC operating at ambient temperature and pressure. © 2004 The Electrochemical Society. All rights reserved.Keywords
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