摘要:
An electrode catalyst for a fuel cell includes a conductive support, and catalytic particles loaded on the conductive support. The catalytic particles include platinum and a base metal being on the lower end of the electrochemical series with respect to platinum. The number of the atoms of the base metal, forming metallic oxides without alloying with the platinum, is less than 5 atomic % of the number of the atoms of the platinum on a surface of the catalytic particles. The electrode catalyst is produced by loading the platinum and base metal on the conductive support, alloying the platinum and base metal thereon by a heat treatment, thereby making the catalytic particles, and removing metallic oxides from a surface of the catalytic particles. The electrode catalyst is less expensive comparatively, exhibits high catalytic activities, and hardly lowers the battery performance of fuel cells.
摘要:
A composition includes a catalyst, and a non-electrolytic material different than the catalyst, wherein the catalyst and the non-electrolytic material compose a fuel cell electrode.
摘要:
A proton conducting electrode useful for a fuel battery. The proton conducting electrode is comprised of a mixture including a fullerene derivative and an electron conducting catalyst, wherein the fullerene derivative is composed of carbon atoms forming fullerene molecules and a proton (Hnull) dissociating group introduced into said carbon atoms. This proton conducting electrode is manufactured by coating mixture containing the fullerene derivative and the electron conducting catalyst on a gas transmitting current collector.
摘要:
A methanol-air fuel cell consisting of a stack of sub-fuel cells, each sub-fuel cell comprising a proton conducting polymer membrane, with each membrane having an array of 1-cm2-anode unit cells on one side and an array of cathode unit cells on the other. A thin polymer film, with openings for the unit cells and plated with pre-patterned lines of electrical leads, is placed on each side of the membrane to collect the current from each unit cell. A polymer fuel-feed plate is placed on the thin polymer film on each side of the membrane to feed methanol and oxygen to the electrodes.
摘要:
An electrocatalyst based on a highly electroconducting polymer and a transition metal, in which transition metal atoms are covalently bonded to heteroatoms of the backbone monomers of the polymer. The covalently bonded transition metal atoms are nucleation sites for catalytically active transition metal particles. The complex is prepared by complexing a highly electroconducting polymer with transition metal coordination ions and then reducing the transition metal ions to neutral atoms. An electrode for a fuel cell is made by impregnating an electrically conducting sheet with the catalytic complex and drying the impregnated sheet. The scope of the present invention includes such electrodes and the fuel cells that incorporate these electrodes.
摘要:
A polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) is designed to operate on a reformate fuel stream containing oxygen and diluted hydrogen fuel with CO impurities. A polymer electrolyte membrane has an electrocatalytic surface formed from an electrocatalyst mixed with the polymer and bonded on an anode side of the membrane. An anode backing is formed of a porous electrically conductive material and has a first surface abutting the electrocatalytic surface and a second surface facing away from the membrane. The second surface has an oxidation catalyst layer effective to catalyze the oxidation of CO by oxygen present in the fuel stream where at least the layer of oxidation catalyst is formed of a non-precious metal oxidation catalyst selected from the group consisting of Cu, Fe, Co, Tb, W, Mo, Sn, and oxides thereof, and other metals having at least two low oxidation states.
摘要:
A membrane electrode unit for polymer electrolyte fuel cells consisting of a polymer electrolyte membrane, both faces of which are in contact with porous reaction layers and gas distributor layers. The reaction layers contain noble metal catalysts supported on carbon and a proton-conducting polymer, a so-called ionomer. At least one of the two reaction layers also contains a noble metal black.
摘要:
An electrode for a fuel cell of the invention comprises a cation-exchange resin, carbon particles and a catalyst metal which is amorphous. The electrode has high activity, a high catalyst utilization and high CO tolerance and is highly active in the electrochemical oxidation reaction of methanol. Furthermore these qualities of the electrode were extremely improved when the catalyst metal was loaded mainly on sites where the surface of the carbon particles contacts proton-conductive passages in the cation-exchange resin. Consequently, a fuel cell with the electrode of the invention has a high output current and a long life, and can be produced at low cost.
摘要:
Disclosed is a catalyst powder contained in an electrode, wherein the catalyst powder includes a catalytic substance supported on a conductive powder, the catalytic substance being comprised of at least a catalyst, the weight ratio of the catalytic substance to the catalyst powder is in the range of 55 to 75 wt %, and the areal density of the catalytic substance is in the range of 1 to 3 mg/cm2. Also disclosed is a catalyst electrode including a catalyst powder and a solid polymer electrolyte, the catalyst powder including a catalytic substance supported on a conductive powder, the catalytic substance being comprised of at least a catalyst, wherein the weight ratio of the catalytic substance to the catalyst powder is in the range of 55 to 75 wt %, and the areal density of the catalytic substance in the catalyst powder is in the range of 1 to 3 mg/cm2. Further disclosed is an electrochemical device including a plurality of electrodes, and an ionic conductor sandwiched between the electrodes, wherein the above-mentioned catalyst electrode constitutes at least one of the plurality of electrodes.
摘要翻译:公开了一种电极中含有的催化剂粉末,其中催化剂粉末包括负载在导电粉末上的催化物质,催化物质至少由催化剂组成,催化剂物质与催化剂粉末的重量比在该范围内 为55〜75重量%,催化剂物质的面密度为1〜3mg / cm 2。 还公开了一种催化剂电极,其包括催化剂粉末和固体聚合物电解质,所述催化剂粉末包括负载在导电粉末上的催化物质,所述催化物质至少由催化剂组成,其中所述催化剂物质与所述催化剂物质的重量比 催化剂粉末的含量范围为55〜75重量%,催化剂粉末中的催化剂的面密度为1〜3mg / cm 2。 还公开了包括多个电极和夹在电极之间的离子导体的电化学装置,其中上述催化剂电极构成多个电极中的至少一个。
摘要:
A membrane electrode assembly for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell that employs an improved catalyst. The catalyst is a mixture of a first catalyst and a second catalyst. The first catalyst is a 50 wt % Pt formed on Vulcan XC72 carbon having a BET surface area of about 250 m2/g. The second catalyst is a 50 wt % Pt formed on Ketjen Black carbon having a BET surface area of about 800 m2/g. The ratio of the first catalyst to the second catalyst is 1:1.