Abstract:
A positive electrode including positive electrode active material particles, a polymeric binder, a polymeric dispersant, and a combination of electrically conductive carbon additive types. The combination of electrically conductive carbon additive types includes carbon particles, graphene sheet stacks, and carbon nanotubes.
Abstract:
An electrode ink composition that forms a fuel cell catalyst layer with reduced mudcracking is provided. The ink composition includes a solvent, a platinum group metal-containing catalyst composition dispersed in the solvent, a primary polymer dispersed within the solvent, the primary polymer being an ionomer, and a secondary polymer dispersed within the solvent, the secondary polymer interacting with the primary polymer via a non-covalent interaction.
Abstract:
A cathode configured for use within a fuel cell system is provided. The cathode includes a cathode substrate. The cathode further includes a coating disposed upon the cathode substrate and including a fluorocarbon polymer additive configured for sintering at a temperature of less than 200° C. The fluorocarbon polymer additive may be mixed with a catalyst ink coating or may be applied separately as a topcoat layer.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, fuel cells, and mixtures to inhibit ionomer permeation into porous substrates using a crosslinked ionomer are described. A method includes preparing an ionomer premix, mixing a crosslinking additive with the ionomer premix to thereby form a crosslinked-ionomer solution, and adding catalyst particles to the crosslinked-ionomer solution to produce a catalyst ink. The ionomer premix includes an ionomer dispersed within a solvent. The catalyst ink includes the catalyst particles distributed homogenously therethrough. The catalyst ink may be cast onto a porous substrate and dried to thereby form a catalyst layer for use in a fuel cell.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, fuel cells, and mixtures to inhibit ionomer permeation into porous substrates using a crosslinked ionomer are described. A method includes preparing an ionomer premix, mixing a crosslinking additive with the ionomer premix to thereby form a crosslinked-ionomer solution, and adding catalyst particles to the crosslinked-ionomer solution to produce a catalyst ink. The ionomer premix includes an ionomer dispersed within a solvent. The catalyst ink includes the catalyst particles distributed homogenously therethrough. The catalyst ink may be cast onto a porous substrate and dried to thereby form a catalyst layer for use in a fuel cell.
Abstract:
A system comprises a donor foil, a carrier substrate disposed adjacent the donor foil, an optical system configured to generate a laser beam through the donor foil and the carrier substrate to create a plurality of cathode voxels, and a current collector foil defined by an X-Y plane and configured to collect the plurality of cathode voxels in the X-Y plane, wherein a first set of the plurality of cathode voxels at a first location on the X-Y plane are diluted with a first amount of a solvent and a second set of the plurality of cathode voxels at a second location on the X-Y plane are diluted with a second amount of a solvent, the second amount of the solvent being less than the first amount of the solvent.
Abstract:
A battery cathode includes: a current collector; and a coating applied to the current collector, the coating including: conductive carbon; polyvinylidene fluoride binder polymer; acid-functionalized dispersant polymer; and electrochemically active layered metal oxide.
Abstract:
A cathode configured for use within a fuel cell system is provided. The cathode includes a cathode substrate. The cathode further includes a coating disposed upon the cathode substrate and including a fluorocarbon polymer additive configured for sintering at a temperature of less than 200° C. The fluorocarbon polymer additive may be mixed with a catalyst ink coating or may be applied separately as a topcoat layer.
Abstract:
A method of making a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell, a membrane electrode assembly, a fuel cell and a fuel cell system. The method includes preferentially adsorbing an ionomer and electrocatalyst mixture onto the surface of a porous fuel cell substrate by appropriate treatment of the mixture prior to or contemporaneous with placement of the mixture onto the substrate. This promotes retention of the ionomer-coated electrocatalyst at or near the surface of the substrate where catalytic activity between it and a proton exchange membrane is designed to take place. Retention of the ionomer-coated electrocatalyst near these interfacial regions by the present invention is preferable to having the ionomer and electrocatalyst be significantly absorbed into the substrate.
Abstract:
A cathode for use in a lithium ion battery includes an active material present in an amount of from 70 to 99 weight percent, wherein the active material includes a lithium rich nickel manganese oxide; a conductive network of a mixture of conductive elements present in an amount of from 0.25 to 20 weight percent, wherein the mixture of conductive elements includes two or more of low aspect ratio particles, plate-like particles, and needle-like particles; and a binder system present in an amount of from 0.25 to 10 weight percent, wherein the binder system includes a primary binder polymer and an acid group or a salt thereof, wherein the amounts are based on a total weight of the cathode.