Abstract:
A new conductive interconnected porous film, useful as a material for a gas diffusion layer which is used in a solid polymer type fuel cell, which satisfies the requirements of a good conductivity, good gas permeability, surface smoothness, corrosion resistance, and low impurities and which is strong in bending and excellent in handling to an extent not obtainable by existing sheet materials of carbon fiber, that is, a conductive interconnected porous film wherein a resin base material part of a thermoplastic resin has a porous interconnected cell structure which is formed by removal of removable particulate matter and has cells of sizes of 10 μm to 50 μm and wherein the resin base material part is comprised of different particle size particles of first carbon particles of large size carbon particles of a diameter of 5 μm or more and second carbon particles of micro size carbon particles of a diameter of 10 nm or more mixed together, and a method of production of the same.
Abstract:
A method of production of a channel member for fuel cell use comprising a step of obtaining a sheet-shaped first conductor part 11 containing a carbon material of at least one of carbon nanotubes, granular graphite, and carbon fibers and a first resin, a step of laying a sheet-shaped second conductor part 21 containing a carbon material and a second resin with a lower melting point than the first resin to form a sheet-shaped base part 13, a step of transferring a grooved surface 51 to a surface to form a grooved base part 16 provided with groove part 15, a step of laying a sheet-shaped third conductor part 31 containing a carbon material and a third resin with a lower melting point than the first resin, and a step of integrally joining the grooved base part and the third conductor part by hot melt bonding to cover the groove parts.
Abstract:
A method of production of a shaped solid acid which uses a wood starting material to keep down the prime costs, heat treats the synthetic resin binder itself together with the wood starting material to avoid deterioration of the catalyst performance due to coverage by the binder, and thereby realizes a high degree of freedom of design of shape and further a suitable hardness is provided. The method of production of a synthetic resin binder-shaped solid acid comprises a starting material kneading step (S10) of kneading a wood starting material powder M and synthetic resin binder B to obtain a wood starting material mixture, a shaping step (S20) of shaping the wood starting material mixture into predetermined shapes to obtain starting material shapes, a heat treatment step (S30) of heat treating said starting material shapes in an inert atmosphere to obtain heat treated shapes, and a sulfonating step (S40) of introducing sulfo groups into the heat treated shapes to obtain a shaped solid acid.