Imperial focus on fault-tolerant, resilient fuel cell electrodes
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 2009
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
Fuel Cells Bulletin 11 any currently available direct methanol anaerobic fuel cell, and could enable Neah to pursue various additional consumer markets. The company has also unveiled a prototype of its unique methanol-nitric fuel cell.
'This [hybrid electrolyte aerobic] technology is differentiated in performance and architecture,' explains Dr Chris D'Couto, the firm's president/CEO, 'in that it combines Neah's unique liquid electrolyte and 3D silicon electrode technology, with the manifold inherent benefits in cost and manufacturability of integrated circuit manufacturing, with proton conduction membrane for proton conduction and gas liquid separation.'
In so doing, Neah believes that it has created the first hybrid electrolyte fuel cell, offering gains over either liquid or solid electrolyte technology. The company uses a unique, patented, silicon-based design for its micro fuel cells that enables higher power densities, lower cost and compact form-factors.
Neah Power recently revealed it had successfully tested an anaerobic (or non-air breathing) direct methanol fuel cell, in work which was primarily funded by the Office of Naval Research [FCB, July 2009].
Meanwhile, Neah Power unveiled its potentially disruptive methanol-nitric fuel cell, at the recent 11th Electrochemical Power Sources R&D Symposium in Baltimore, Maryland. In his presentation Dr Tsali Cross, the firm's VP of engineering, described the development and characterization of porous silicon-based methanol-nitric fuel cell prototype systems for portable military applications.