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公开(公告)号:US12176547B2
公开(公告)日:2024-12-24
申请号:US17478485
申请日:2021-09-17
Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
Inventor: Hiroaki Koyama , Madoka Ozawa
IPC: H01M4/86 , H01M4/90 , H01M8/1004 , H01M8/1018
Abstract: A catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells that improves drainage or gas diffusion, reduces or prevents the occurrence of cracking in a catalyst layer, enhances catalyst utilization efficiency, exerts high output power and high energy conversion efficiency, and has high durability, and also provides a membrane-electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell using the catalyst layer. The catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells contains a catalyst, carbon particles, a polymer electrolyte, and a fibrous material. In the catalyst layer, the carbon particles carry the catalyst1. The catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells has voids. The percentage of frequencies of the voids having a cross-sectional area of 10,000 nm2 or more is 13% or more and 20% or less among the voids observed in a thickness-direction cross section of the catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells perpendicular to the surface thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US20240405245A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-05
申请号:US18804658
申请日:2024-08-14
Applicant: Standard Energy Inc.
Inventor: Dongyoung Lee , Bugi Kim , Dongheun Kim , Sanghyun Park , Kangyeong Choe
IPC: H01M8/20 , H01M4/90 , H01M4/94 , H01M4/96 , H01M8/04082 , H01M8/1018 , H01M8/18
Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to energy storage devices, and more particularly to redox batteries. In one aspect, a redox battery comprises a first half cell and a second half cell. The first half cell comprises a positive electrolyte reservoir comprising a first electrolyte contacting a positive electrode and has dissolved therein a first redox couple configured to undergo a first redox half reaction. The second half cell comprises a negative electrolyte reservoir comprising a second electrolyte contacting a negative electrode and has dissolved therein a second redox couple configured to undergo a second redox half reaction. The redox battery additionally comprises an ion exchange membrane separating the positive electrolyte reservoir and the negative electrolyte reservoir. The first half cell, the second half cell and the ion exchange membrane define a redox battery cell that is sealed in a casing.
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公开(公告)号:US20240396068A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-28
申请号:US18795108
申请日:2024-08-05
Applicant: TOPPAN HOLDINGS INC.
Inventor: Yutaka SUZUKI , Hiroyuki MORIOKA , Katsuyuki KISHI
IPC: H01M8/1004 , H01M4/86 , H01M4/88 , H01M8/1018
Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly includes a polymer electrolyte membrane that has a first surface and a second surface, an air electrode catalyst layer that is joined to the first surface, and a fuel electrode catalyst layer that is joined to the second surface. The mass ratio of a fibrous material in the fuel electrode catalyst layer is higher than the mass ratio of a fibrous material in the air electrode catalyst layer.
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公开(公告)号:US12062796B2
公开(公告)日:2024-08-13
申请号:US18268899
申请日:2021-12-13
Inventor: Minoru Ishida , Koichi Matsutani , Hiroshi Nakanishi , Hideaki Kasai , Bhume Chantaramolee , Susan Menez Aspera
IPC: H01M4/92 , H01M8/10 , H01M8/1018
CPC classification number: H01M4/921 , H01M4/926 , H01M8/1018 , H01M2008/1095
Abstract: A catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction containing catalyst particles having a shell-core structure containing a PtCo alloy or a PtCoMn alloy as a core, and platinum as a shell layer. A specific plane of a face-centered cubic lattice is formed by a plurality of platinum atoms contained in the shell layer, and a lattice constant of the plane of the face-centered cubic lattice on the catalyst particle surface is 3.70 Å or more and 4.05 Å or less (in a PtCo alloy), or 3.870 Å or more and 4.10 Å or less (in a PtCoMn alloy). A catalyst design method includes a step of calculating, with respect to an orientation plane such as the plane formed by platinum atoms of the shell layer, adsorption energies for an oxygen molecule, an OH group and a water molecule by first-principles calculation based on density functional theory.
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公开(公告)号:US12002969B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-04
申请号:US17211140
申请日:2021-03-24
Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Hiroshi Yano , Tomotaka Saito , Kota Iwasaki
IPC: B22F9/02 , B22F1/054 , B22F9/24 , H01M4/88 , H01M4/92 , H01M8/1004 , H01M8/1018 , B05D1/02 , H01M8/10
CPC classification number: H01M4/926 , B22F1/054 , B22F9/026 , B22F9/24 , H01M4/881 , H01M4/8842 , H01M4/928 , H01M8/1004 , H01M8/1018 , B05D1/02 , B22F2301/25 , B22F2304/052 , B22F2304/054 , H01M2008/1095 , H01M2300/0082
Abstract: Provided is a method for producing metal nanoparticles, which enables metal nanoparticles to be more conveniently produced.
The method for producing metal nanoparticles includes spraying and drying a mixture to form metal nanoparticles, the mixture containing a metal salt and at least one solvent selected from alcohols having 1 or more and 5 or less carbon atoms.-
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公开(公告)号:US20240120456A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-11
申请号:US18276792
申请日:2022-02-10
Applicant: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Inventor: PAUL KOHL , MRINMAY MANDAL
IPC: H01M4/04 , H01M4/88 , H01M6/18 , H01M8/1018
CPC classification number: H01M4/04 , H01M4/8878 , H01M6/181 , H01M8/1018
Abstract: An electrochemical device (100) includes an ion exchange membrane (120), a first electrode (110) adjacent to a first side thereof and a second electrode (130) adjacent to a second side thereof. At least one of the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130) includes a current collector layer (112, 132) and a catalyzing layer (114, 134) applied thereto. The catalyzing layer (114, 134) includes an ion-conducting polymer (116), a plurality of electroactive catalyst particles (115, 118) and an adhesive (118) that binds the polymer (116), the catalyst particles (115, 118) and the current collector layer together (112, 132). In a method of making an electrode, an ion-conducting polymer, a plurality of electroactive catalyst particles and an adhesive are mixed in a solvent, which is applied to a current collector layer. The solvent is evaporated so that the adhesive binds the polymer and the catalyst particles to the current collector.
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公开(公告)号:US20240072272A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-29
申请号:US18198896
申请日:2023-05-18
Applicant: Google LLC
Inventor: Priya Chhiba , Thomas Kowalski , Varun Sakalkar , Angad Sandhu , Hariharan Subramanian
IPC: H01M8/04029 , G06F1/18 , G06F1/20 , H01M8/04082 , H01M8/1018 , H05K7/20
CPC classification number: H01M8/04029 , G06F1/189 , G06F1/206 , H01M8/04208 , H01M8/1018 , H05K7/2079 , H01M2008/1095
Abstract: An energy system may include data center computer equipment, a data center power system configured to simultaneously provide power for operation of the data center equipment and power for cooling the data center equipment, fuel cells configured to provide power to the data center power system, an on-site battery storage configured to provide backup power and power conditioning to the fuel cells, an on-site hydrogen storage to provide fuel to the fuel cells, and an excess heat recovery connection configured to transfer a liquid from the data center power system to provide cooling to the fuel cells.
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公开(公告)号:US20240035177A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-01
申请号:US18264610
申请日:2023-01-20
Applicant: Nanofilm Technologies International Limited
IPC: H01M4/86 , H01M8/1018 , H01M4/88 , C25B11/04 , C25B11/036 , C23C14/35
CPC classification number: H01M4/8657 , H01M4/8673 , H01M8/1018 , H01M4/8871 , C25B11/04 , C25B11/036 , C23C14/35 , H01M2008/1095
Abstract: An electrode for electrochemical applications is coated with a layer of a-C, wherein the layer of a-C comprises at least 10 each of first and second sub-layers, being (i) first sub-layers having high conductivity with a sp2 content of 60-95%, alternating with (ii) second sub-layers having high corrosion resistance with a sp2 content of 50-90%, wherein the sp2 content of the first sub-layers is at least 3% greater than the sp2 content of the second sub-layers. A method of making such electrodes comprises:⋅a) depositing a first sub-layer comprising a-C, ⋅b) depositing a second sub-layer comprising a-C wherein the sp2 content of the first sub-layer is at least 3% greater than the sp2 content of the second sub-layer, and ⋅c) repeating the steps above to deposit at least 10 first sub-layers alternating with 10 second sub-layers, so as to produce the electrodes.
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公开(公告)号:US11862803B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-02
申请号:US16647545
申请日:2018-09-28
Inventor: Jun-Young Kim , Moo-Seok Lee , Hee-Tak Kim , Seongmin Yuk , Dong-Hyun Lee
IPC: H01M4/86 , H01M8/1004 , H01M8/1018 , H01M8/10
CPC classification number: H01M4/8663 , H01M8/1004 , H01M8/1018 , H01M2008/1095
Abstract: A radical scavenger, a manufacturing method therefor, a membrane-electrode assembly including the radical scavenger, and a fuel cell including the membrane-electrode assembly are disclosed. The membrane-electrode assembly contains an ion exchange membrane; catalyst electrodes disposed on both surfaces of the ion exchange membrane, respectively; and a radical scavenger disposed at any one position selected from the group consisting of in the catalyst electrodes, in the ion exchange membrane, between the ion exchange membrane and the catalyst electrodes, and a combination thereof.
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公开(公告)号:US20230395818A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-07
申请号:US18268899
申请日:2021-12-13
Inventor: Minoru ISHIDA , Koichi MATSUTANI , Hiroshi NAKANISHI , Hideaki KASAI , Bhume CHANTARAMOLEE , Susan Menez ASPERA
IPC: H01M4/92 , H01M8/1018
CPC classification number: H01M4/921 , H01M4/926 , H01M8/1018 , H01M2008/1095
Abstract: A catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction containing catalyst particles having a shell-core structure containing a PtCo alloy or a PtCoMn alloy as a core, and platinum as a shell layer. A specific plane of a face-centered cubic lattice is formed by a plurality of platinum atoms contained in the shell layer, and a lattice constant of the plane of the face-centered cubic lattice on the catalyst particle surface is 3.70 Å or more and 4.05 Å or less (in a PtCo alloy), or 3.870 Å or more and 4.10 Å or less (in a PtCoMn alloy). A catalyst design method includes a step of calculating, with respect to an orientation plane such as the plane formed by platinum atoms of the shell layer, adsorption energies for an oxygen molecule, an OH group and a water molecule by first-principles calculation based on density functional theory.
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