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 Fuel Cell Alerting Service

FUEL CELL

Volume 2, Issue 12,30 December 2004

Current Issue:

Guest Editorial

 The 2004 Fuel Cell Seminar
Guest Editor: D. Gervasio

Reviews

 Trends in biological hydrogen production- a review
K. Vijayaraghavan and Mohd Amin Mohd Soom
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Article in Press)      

Applications

 Development of a lightweight fuel cell vehicle
J.J. Hwang, D.Y. Wang and N.C. Shih  
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

 Efficiency and weight trade-off analysis of regenerative fuel cells as energy storage for aerospace applications
F. Barbir, T. Molter and L. Dalton  
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Article in Press)

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

 Polysulfone ionomers for proton-conducting fuel cell membranes 2.
Sulfophenylated polysulfones and polyphenylsulfones
Lina E. Karlsson and Patric Jannasch
Electrochimica Acta (Article in Press)

 Alginic acid- imidazole composite material as anhydrous proton conducting membrane
Masanori Yamada and Itaru Honma
Polymer 45 (25) (2004) 8349-8354

 High-temperature polymer electrolytes for PEM fuel cells : study of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at a Pt- polymer electrolyte interface
Zhenyu Liu, Jesse S. Wainright and Robert F. Savinell
Chemical Engineering Science (Article in Press)

 Preparation and characterization of composite membranes composed of zirconium tricarboxybutylphosphonate and polybenzimidazole for intermediate temperature operation
Moon Yup Jang and Yohtaro Yamazaki
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

 Highly water-proof coating of gas flow channels by plasma polymerization for PEM fuel cells
Akira Taniguchi and Kazuaki Yasuda
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

 CFD-based modelling of proton exchange membrane fuel cells
B.R. Sivertsen and N. Djilali
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

 Analysis and design of PEM fuel cells
V. Mishra, F. Yang and R. Pitchumani
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

Direct Methanol Fuel Cell

 Formic acid decomposition on palladium-coated Pt(1 1 0)
Fred S. Thomas and Richard I. Masel  
Surface Science (Article in Press)

 In situ visualization study of CO2 gas bubble behavior in DMFC anode flow fields
H. Yang, T. S. Zhao and Q. Ye  
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

 Nafion- polyfurfuryl alcohol nanocomposite membranes for direct methanol fuel cells
Jin Liu, Huanting Wang, Shaoan Cheng and Kwong-Yu Chan
Journal of Membrane Science (Article in Press)

 Pt-based anode catalysts for direct ethanol fuel cells
W.J. Zhou, S.Q. Song, W.Z. Li, G.Q. Sun, Q. Xin, S. Kontou, K. Poulianitis and P. Tsiakaras
Solid State Ionics (Article in Press)

 Development of enhanced materials for direct-methanol fuel cell by combinatorial method and nanoscience
Won Choon Choi, Min Ku Jeon, Yo Jin Kim, Seong Ihl Woo and Won Hi Hong
Catalysis Today  93-95 (2004) (517-522)

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

Effects of mixed conduction on the open-circuit voltage of intermediate-temperature SOFCs based on Sm-doped ceria electrolytes
Toshiaki Matsui, Takuya Kosaka, Minoru Inaba, Atsushi Mineshige and Zempachi Ogumi
Solid State Ionics (Article in Press)

 Development of intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for direct utilization of hydrocarbon fuels
C. Lu, S. An, W.L. Worrell, J.M. Vohs and R.J. Gorte
Solid State Ionics (Article in Press)

 Solid state fuel storage and utilization through reversible carbon deposition on an SOFC anode
Manabu Ihara, Keisuke Matsuda, Hikaru Sato and Chiaki Yokoyama
Solid State Ionics (Article in Press)

 Geometrical modeling of the triple-phase-boundary in solid oxide fuel cells
Xiaohua Deng and Anthony Petric
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

Fuel Processing

 A plate-type reactor coated with zirconia-sol and catalyst mixture for methanol steam-reforming
Mee Sook Lim, Myoung Rae Kim, Jermim Noh and Seong Ihl Woo  
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

 Design of a fuel processor unit for PEM fuel cell via shortcut design method
S.K. Kamarudin, W.R.W. Daud, A.Md. Som, M.S. Takriff, A.W. Mohammad and Y.K. Loke
Chemical Engineering Journal 104 (1-3) (2004)

General

 Scanning electrochemical microscope characterization of thin film Pt-Ru alloys for fuel cell applications
M. Black, J. Cooper and P. McGinn
Chemical Engineering Science (Article in Press)

 Methanol electrooxidation on platinum spontaneously deposited on unsupported and carbon-supported ruthenium nanoparticles
S.T. Kuk and A. Wieckowski
Journal of Power Sources (Article in Press)

 Oxygen transport in composite mediated biocathodes
Scott Calabrese Barton  
Electrochimica Acta (Article in Press)

 Thermal degradation of the support in carbon-supported platinum electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells
D.A. Stevens and J.R. Dahn
Carbon 43 (1) (2005) 179-188