Manufacture of electrodes

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 388 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(00)80081-4

✦ Synopsis

Applicant/Inventon G.A. Marchetti (USA) The patent describes a gas-permeable, hydrophilic, graphite fuel cell electrode for use in conjunction with an ionomer membrane. The fuel cell electrode includes a roughened, interstitial graphite surface enclosing micropores and mesopores, on which is deposited a catalyst for contacting an ionomer membrane. The graphite electrode has a thickness of about 40 ]am.