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Advances in Low Pt Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Hydrogen has the potential to be one of the solutions that can address environmental pollution and greenhouse emissions from traditional fossil fuels. However, high costs hinder its large-scale commercialization, particularly for enabling devices such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs)....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9866934/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36677836 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28020773 |
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author | Cao, Feng Ding, Rui Rui, Zhiyan Wang, Xuebin Meng, Zhen Zhang, Bin Dong, Weiwen Li, Jia Liu, Jianguo Jiang, Xiangfen |
author_facet | Cao, Feng Ding, Rui Rui, Zhiyan Wang, Xuebin Meng, Zhen Zhang, Bin Dong, Weiwen Li, Jia Liu, Jianguo Jiang, Xiangfen |
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description | Hydrogen has the potential to be one of the solutions that can address environmental pollution and greenhouse emissions from traditional fossil fuels. However, high costs hinder its large-scale commercialization, particularly for enabling devices such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The precious metal Pt is indispensable in boosting the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in cathode electrocatalysts from the most crucial component, i.e., the membrane electrode assembly (MEA). MEAs account for a considerable amount of the entire cost of PEMFCs. To address these bottlenecks, researchers either increase Pt utilization efficiency or produce MEAs with enhanced performance but less Pt. Only a few reviews that explain the approaches are available. This review summarizes advances in designing nanocatalysts and optimizing the catalyst layer structure to achieve low-Pt loading MEAs. Different strategies and their corresponding effectiveness, e.g., performance in half-cells or MEA, are summarized and compared. Finally, future directions are discussed and proposed, aiming at affordable, highly active, and durable PEMFCs. |
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spelling | pubmed-98669342023-01-22 Advances in Low Pt Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Cao, Feng Ding, Rui Rui, Zhiyan Wang, Xuebin Meng, Zhen Zhang, Bin Dong, Weiwen Li, Jia Liu, Jianguo Jiang, Xiangfen Molecules Review Hydrogen has the potential to be one of the solutions that can address environmental pollution and greenhouse emissions from traditional fossil fuels. However, high costs hinder its large-scale commercialization, particularly for enabling devices such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The precious metal Pt is indispensable in boosting the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in cathode electrocatalysts from the most crucial component, i.e., the membrane electrode assembly (MEA). MEAs account for a considerable amount of the entire cost of PEMFCs. To address these bottlenecks, researchers either increase Pt utilization efficiency or produce MEAs with enhanced performance but less Pt. Only a few reviews that explain the approaches are available. This review summarizes advances in designing nanocatalysts and optimizing the catalyst layer structure to achieve low-Pt loading MEAs. Different strategies and their corresponding effectiveness, e.g., performance in half-cells or MEA, are summarized and compared. Finally, future directions are discussed and proposed, aiming at affordable, highly active, and durable PEMFCs. MDPI 2023-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9866934/ /pubmed/36677836 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28020773 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Cao, Feng Ding, Rui Rui, Zhiyan Wang, Xuebin Meng, Zhen Zhang, Bin Dong, Weiwen Li, Jia Liu, Jianguo Jiang, Xiangfen Advances in Low Pt Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells |
title | Advances in Low Pt Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells |
title_full | Advances in Low Pt Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells |
title_fullStr | Advances in Low Pt Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Advances in Low Pt Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells |
title_short | Advances in Low Pt Loading Membrane Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells |
title_sort | advances in low pt loading membrane electrode assembly for proton exchange membrane fuel cells |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9866934/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36677836 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28020773 |
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