Effect of Nafion loading and the novel flow field designs on innovative anode electrocatalyst for improved Direct Methanol Fuel cells performance

Thanarajan Kumaresan; Thiagarajan Velumani; Mathan Chandran; Karthikeyan Palaniswamy; Alex Thirkell; Ashley Fly; Rui Chen; Senthilarasu Sundaram

doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2020.128222

Effect of Nafion loading and the novel flow field designs on innovative anode electrocatalyst for improved Direct Methanol Fuel cells performance

Thanarajan Kumaresan, Thiagarajan Velumani, Mathan Chandran, Karthikeyan Palaniswamy, Alex Thirkell, Ashley Fly, Rui Chen, Senthilarasu Sundaram

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Efficiency of a Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) not just merely depends on the catalyst, but also on the flow channels, physical/electrochemical kinetics, Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) preparation and other operating parameters. This article is focused on the influence of novel flow field design and the effect of Nafion loading during MEA preparation on the performance of DMFC. A novel Pt/NiTiO3 was used as the anode electrocatalyst in the DMFC. The results show a 27.8% & 5.1% increment in cell performance due to changes in Nafion loading and flow field designs, respectively. A Nafion loading of 0.5 mg/cm2 and the sinuous flow field gave the highest performance. Thus, Pt-NiTiO3/C performed to be an encouraging anode catalyst with the new sinuous flow field.

Original language	English
Article number	128222
Journal	Materials Letters
Volume	276
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.128222
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2020

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