• ELECTROCATALYSIS IN HYDROGEN PEROXIDE FUEL CELLS Swift Enterprises Ltd.
• 5/2002 Low-Platinum and Platinum-Free Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction at Fuel Cell Cathodes Naval Research Laboratory and U. of Pennsylvania (PDF)
• International Platinum Association pie charts showing world supply and demand
• 5/17/02 Fuel Cells: Where Will The Platinum Come From? Fuel Cell Today
• Platinum Metals Review A Johnson Matthey Publication
• The solubility of hydrogen in aluminum, cobalt, copper, iron, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, silver, tantalum, thorium, tin, titanium, vanadium, and zirconium graph
• Device to speed chemists' studies of catalysts
• Platinum physical properties webelements.com
• Palladium physical properties webelements.com
• Better Catalysts Could Bring Fuel Cells Down To Earth
• Combinatorial Methods Successful in Solid-State Catalyst Discovery
• Patent US6165247: Methods for producing platinum powders 2/26/00 Superior MicroPowders, LLC, Albuquerque, NM
• DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR PEM FUEL CELLS DOE-NETL

The "electrolyte" is that part of any fuel cell which separates the positively and negatively charged ions (e.g. protons and electrons in a PEMFC) which are formed by catalysis of the fuel (hydrogen) at the anode, allowing the protons but not the electrons to pass through to the cathode, and forcing the electrons to reach the cathode through an external circuit where the electrons can do work as electricity. The electrolyte used is what gives a particular type of fuel cell its name: alkaline, molten carbonate, phosphoric acis, PEM, etc.

PEM

• 12/12/07 New Polymer Becomes Wetter as Temperature Increases Material could be used to increase the efficiency of fuel cells Berkeley Lab
• 4/9/2003 Developing Durable, Cost- Effective MEAs for Automotive Fuel Cells Gore
• Membranes fit for a revolution Materials Today
• Developing Durable, Cost-Effective MEAs Gore
• Catalyst coated composite membranes Gore
• DuPont . Nafion ® PFSA Membranes NR-111 and NR-112 perfluorosulfonic acid polymer
• DuPontä Nafion ® PFSA Membranes N-112, NE-1135, N-115, N-117, NE-1110 perfluorosulfonic acid polymer
• DuPontä Nafion ® PFSA Products perfluorosulfonic acid polymer Safe Handling and Use Of Perfluorosulfonic Acid Products
• MSDS: Nafion® (perfluorosulfonic acid polymer) DuPont

Alkaline

• Material Safety Data Sheet: Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) pharmco

SOFC

• Low temperature sintering of nanosized ceramic powders "In the search of new electrolyte materials for SOFC applications, cerium gadolinium oxide (CGO) has been investigated in our group for the last few years." ETH Materials.

  Stack Plates

• Carbon/Carbon Composite Bipolar Plate for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel cells Oak Ridge Natiuonal laboratory

  Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs)

• > 4/2003 Presentation: Developing Durable, Cost- Effective MEAs for Automotive Fuel Cells GORE
• Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs) Description 3M
• Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs) Defined 3M

• High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Nanocomposites for Fuel Cells DOE, Virginia Tech
• Porvair Fuel Cell Technology metal and ceramic porous media

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