Abstract:
Disclosed are a carbon substrate for a gas diffusion layer of a fuel cell, a gas diffusion layer employing the same, an electrode for a fuel cell, a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell, and a fuel cell, wherein the carbon substrate includes a plate-shaped substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and the plate-shaped substrate includes carbon fibers arranged to extend in one direction (extend unidirectionally) and a carbide of an organic polymer located between the carbon fibers to bind the carbon fibers to each other. Since the carbon substrate according to the present disclosure includes carbon fibers aligned in at least one direction selected from a machine direction (MD) and a cross-machine direction (CMD) by controlling the alignment of carbon fibers, the carbon substrate has excellent mechanical strength, particularly, bending strength, even if its thickness is thin, and thus it is possible to effectively prevent the intrusion phenomenon of the gas diffusion layer into the flow path of the metal separator, and has excellent gas flow characteristics.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a solid oxide fuel cell including an electrode-electrolyte assembly (12) and an interconnect (14) in communication with the electrode-electrolyte assembly (12), wherein the interconnect (14) has a porosity gradient.
Abstract:
In the present invention, a water-based wetting dispersant having an acid value of 5 mg KOH/g or more and an amine value of 10 mg KOH/g or less is used to dilute and disperse black carbon and a hydrophobic fluorine resin in an organic solvent to manufacture a slurry for microporous layer formation. In this regard, the added amount of the water-based wetting dispersant is adjusted to 5 to 30 parts by weight on the basis of 100 parts by weight of black carbon. In the present invention, the slurry is applied to at least one surface of carbon fiber paper and dried to form a microporous layer in which two independent peaks appear as analyzed on a particle size graph, followed by compression and deposition thereof to fabricate a gas diffusion layer including the microporous layer in which two independent peaks appear as analyzed on a particle size graph. With the appearance of two independent peaks on a particle size analysis graph, the gas diffusion layer of the present invention has an excellent drainage function, thereby increasing in the current value of the concentration polarization curve at the equivalent voltage value.
Abstract:
A gas diffusion electrode substrate that is used in a fuel cell and is constituted by an electrode substrate and microporous parts, in which a microporous part (A) is formed on one surface of the electrode substrate with a thickness in the range of 10 µm or more and 60 µm or less, and in the gas diffusion electrode substrate, the pore volume of pores with a pore size of 0.1 µm or more and less than 10 µm is within the range of 0.9 times or more and 5 times or less of the pore volume of pores with a pore size of 10 µm or more and less than 100 µm.
Abstract:
Provided is a method for producing a carbon material, the method utilizing a cellulosic material and enables the carbon material, which retains the shape of the cellulosic material, to be produced in high yield. The method for producing a carbon material is characterized by comprising the steps of: allowing a cellulosic material and/or a regenerated cellulosic material to adsorb a sulfonic acid; and heating the cellulosic material and/or the regenerated cellulosic material which has adsorbed the sulfonic acid at a temperature of 600-2800°C in an inert gas atmosphere.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a low-cost metal gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell excellent in electron conductivity and water repellency is proposed. The manufacturing method includes step (A) in which a conductive layer of carbon film layer is formed on the metal porous body, and step (B) in which a water-repellent layer is formed on the metal porous body formed with the conductive layer, wherein the step (B) further includes a coating step (B1) in which a solution containing a fluorine resin which constitutes the water-repellent layer (B1) is coated on the metal porous body, and a water-repellent forming step (B2) in which the metal porous body coated with the solution is heat-treated at an evaporation temperature or more of a volatile component which is contained in the solution and which does not constitute the water-repellent layer and less than a destruction temperature of the conductive layer to thereby form the water-repellent layer composed of the fluorine resin.
Abstract:
A micro porous layer 3a and a catalyst layer 3b are integrated into a sheet so that a fuel cell electrode sheet 3 is formed. The electrode sheet 3 is obtained by applying an MPL ink containing a carbon material and a binder to a supporting sheet S and heat-treating the ink, and applying a catalyst ink containing a catalyst to the obtained micro porous sheet 3a and drying it. An electrode assembly 1 in which the electrode sheets 3 are laminated onto both sides of a solid polymer electrolyte membrane 2, is obtained by laminating the electrode sheets 3 formed on the supporting sheets S to the solid polymer electrolyte membrane 2, and thereafter peeling off the supporting sheets S.