Abstract:
A fuel cell for a portable electronic device having a liquid fuel reservoir (100) wherein at least a part of the inner surface (103) and a part of an outer surface (104) of the fuel reservoir wall (102) are gas permeable, wherein said wall is adapted such that the area of the open parts of the inner surface (103) of the wall is larger than the area of the open parts of said outer surface (104) of the wall, wherein said wall is porous and adapted to allow gas to enter said wall and to be transported along said wall in a direction substantially parallel with the plane of the wall and to leave said wall, and wherein said wall is adapted such that the inner surface is hydrophobic. The invention further provides a portable electronic device and a method of manufacturing a liquid fuel reservoir.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising a proton conductive polymer comprising a first and a second monomer having the general structure: wherein in the first monomer R 4 comprises a sulphonic acid moiety, a phosphonic acid moiety or a carboxylic acid moiety, and wherein in the second monomer R 4 comprises an amino group, which proton conductive polymer is obtainable from polymerisation of the first and second monomer followed by reacting the amino groups of the second monomer with a bifunctional cross-linking agent. The invention also relates to the proton conductive polymer, a method of preparing the polymer electrolyte membrane and a direct alcohol fuel cell comprising the polymer electrolyte membrane. The invention further relates to a hearing aid comprising the fuel cell.