摘要:
A water repellent catalyst layer for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, including a water repellent coating film provided on catalyst particles, which are coated with a proton-conductive electrolyte, and a manufacturing method for a water repellent catalyst layer for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell including the steps of: coating catalyst particles with a proton-conductive electrolyte; providing a fluorine-based compound having at least one polar group and having a molecular weight of 10,000 or less on the catalyst particles to form a fluorine compound coating film; and imparting hydrophobic property by stabilizing the fluorine compound coating film. The hydrophobic property is imparted even to the inside of fine pores of the catalyst layer to improve water evacuation performance, so that an effective surface area and a catalyst utilization ratio can be increased.
摘要:
There is provided a dendritic catalyst layer for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell including: a solid polymer electrolyte membrane; electrodes; and catalyst layers each provided between the solid polymer electrolyte membrane and the respective electrode, the catalyst layer for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes a catalyst with a dendritic structure. The catalyst with a dendritic structure is formed through vacuum evaporation such as reactive sputtering, reactive electron beam evaporation, or ion plating. The catalyst layer for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell can improve catalytic activity, catalyst utilization, and substance transport performance in the catalyst layer.
摘要:
An electrode catalyst layer, capable of having high catalytic activity in a small thickness, for use in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell having an entangled (cobweb-like) structure. The electrode catalyst layer is produced through a process including a step of forming a thin film with a film-forming material containing a combination of platinum, oxygen, and nitrogen, a combination of platinum, oxygen, and boron, or a combination of platinum, oxygen, nitrogen, and boron, and a step of forming a catalyst material, which has the entangled structure and principally contains platinum as a main component by reducing the film-forming material.
摘要:
There is provided a dendritic catalyst layer for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell including: a solid polymer electrolyte membrane; electrodes; and catalyst layers each provided between the solid polymer electrolyte membrane and the respective electrode, the catalyst layer for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes a catalyst with a dendritic structure. The catalyst with a dendritic structure is formed through vacuum evaporation such as reactive sputtering, reactive electron beam evaporation, or ion plating. The catalyst layer for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell can improve catalytic activity, catalyst utilization, and substance transport performance in the catalyst layer.
摘要:
An electrode catalyst layer, capable of having high catalytic activity in a small thickness, for use in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell has an entangled structure (cobweb-like structure). The electrode catalyst layer is produced through a process including a step of forming a thin film with a film-forming material containing a combination of platinum, oxygen, and nitrogen, a combination of platinum, oxygen, and boron, or a combination of platinum, oxygen, nitrogen, and boron, and a step of forming a catalyst material which has the entangled structure and principally contains platinum as a main component by reducing the film-forming material.
摘要:
Provided is a method of manufacturing a membrane electrode assembly including catalyst layers in both sides of a polymer electrolyte membrane, substance diffusion of the catalyst layer being improved, in which forming at least one of the catalyst layers includes at least: forming a first layer including one of a catalyst and a catalyst precursor on a surface of a sheet by vapor-phase deposition; forming a through hole in the first layer; forming a second layer including one of a catalyst and a catalyst precursor on a surface of the first layer having the through hole by vapor-phase deposition; joining a polymer electrolyte membrane to a surface of the second layer; and peeling off the sheet from the first layer.
摘要:
To provide an electrochromic light control element in which a response speed in a low temperature environment can be easily and also efficiently improved.The electrochromic light control element includes a pair of transparent electrodes provided on a pair of substrates and an electrochromic layer and an ion conductive layer arranged between the pair of the transparent electrodes, in which one of the pair of transparent electrodes is connected via a heater that generates heat through a power distribution and an electrical insulation heat conductive layer.
摘要:
An electron emission apparatus can effectively suppress the adverse effect of electric discharges that can take place between the oppositely disposed electrodes of the apparatus to which a high voltage is applied by dividing the electrode adapted to have a higher electric potential into segments in order to reduce the electrostatic capacitance between the electrodes. In the case of an electron emission apparatus comprising electron-emitting devices, said plurality of electron-emitting devices are disposed such that the direction along which those that can be driven simultaneously are arranged is not parallel with the direction along which the electrode is divided into the electrode segments in order to reduce the variable range of the electric current that can flow in the segments.
摘要:
Provided is a polymer electrolyte fuel cell which can rapidly absorb and diffuse water produced in a porous metal body and allows the water to be transpirated into the atmosphere, thereby enabling a stable operation for a long period of time even at a time of high-humidity/high-current density operation. The polymer electrolyte fuel cell includes a polymer electrolyte membrane; a pair of catalyst layers and a pair of gas diffusion layers, each pair of which is disposed so as to sandwich the polymer electrolyte membrane; and a porous metal body disposed on at least one of the pair of gas diffusion layers, in which boehmite alumina having an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 5 nm or more and 1 μm or less is provided on at least a part of a surface of the porous metal body.
摘要:
A catalyst electrode is constituted by a catalyst material and a porous carbon frame for carrying the catalyst material. The catalyst material has a structure comprising whiskers or a structure comprising flaky parts. The porous carbon frame has pores having a pore diameter of 0.5 μm or more and 10 μm or less in terms of a mode diameter and has a porosity, in the catalyst electrode, in a range of from 12% to 80%.