Investigation of direct methanol fuel cell performance of sulfonated polyimide membrane

Jung Min Song; Kenji Miyatake; Hiroyuki Uchida; Masahiro Watanabe

doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2005.12.029

Investigation of direct methanol fuel cell performance of sulfonated polyimide membrane

Jung Min Song, Kenji Miyatake, Hiroyuki Uchida, Masahiro Watanabe^*

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Abstract

Sulfonated polyimide (SPI) membranes have been evaluated as electrolyte membranes in direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). The membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) was made by hot-pressing the membrane, an anode and a cathode, catalyzed with PtRu/CB (PtRu dispersed on carbon black) and Pt/CB bound with Nafion^® ionomer, respectively. The performance of the cell based on SPI was compared with that of Nafion^® 112 in various operation conditions such as cell temperature (T_cell), cathode relative humidity (RH), and methanol concentration (C_MeOH). The methanol crossover at the cell based on SPI was a half of Nafion^® 112, resulting in the improved cell efficiency. Advantage of the use of SPI became much distinctive from the conventional Nafion^® 112 when the DMFC was operated at a higher T_cell or a higher C_MeOH.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4497-4504
Number of pages	8
Journal	Electrochimica Acta
Volume	51
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2005.12.029
Publication status	Published - 2006 Jun 1
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC)
Methanol crossover
Sulfonated polyimide (SPI)

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Chemical Engineering(all)
Electrochemistry

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