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Measurement of effective gas diffusion coefficients of catalyst layers of PEM fuel cells with a Loschmidt diffusion cell

✍ Scribed by Jun Shen; Jianqin Zhou; Nelson G.C. Astrath; Titichai Navessin; Zhong-Sheng (Simon) Liu; Chao Lei; Jurandir H. Rohling; Dmitri Bessarabov; Shanna Knights; Siyu Ye

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 498 KB
Volume: 196
Category: Article
ISSN: 0378-7753
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.07.086

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