Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Using operando techniques to understand and design high performance and stable alkaline membrane fuel cells

  • Xiong Peng,
  • Devashish Kulkarni,
  • Ying Huang,
  • Travis J. Omasta,
  • Benjamin Ng,
  • Yiwei Zheng,
  • Lianqin Wang,
  • Jacob M. LaManna,
  • Daniel S. Hussey,
  • John R. Varcoe,
  • Iryna V. Zenyuk,
  • William E. Mustain

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17370-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Modern alkaline membrane fuel cells have generally shown very poor operational stability. Here, the authors combine operando neutron imaging and X-ray computed tomography to understand the root cause for this and then design new electrodes to enable high performance and operational stability.