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Improvement of water management in a vapor feed direct methanol fuel cell

✍ Scribed by M. Shahbudin Masdar; Takuya Tsujiguchi; Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 590 KB
Volume: 195
Category: Article
ISSN: 0378-7753
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.06.100

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