The electrode layers thrust is researching how to make high-performing membrane electrode assemblies and electrode layers with low platinum loadings and high performance.
2Electrode Layers
3Ionomers, Gas Diffusion Layers, Bipolar Plates, & Interfaces
FC-PAD is researching low-platinum-loaded electrode layers to improve their performance at high current densities and limit the degradation losses at the electrode layer level, including electrocatalyst and support composition and morphology changes and electrode-structure changes.
FC-PAD is researching transport in low-loaded catalyst layers to:
FC-PAD is researching electrode layer designs and fabrication to:
FC-PAD is researching electrode layer degradation to examine the origins of the changing transport losses by examining how changing properties of the electrode layer, the surface properties of the carbon support, protonic conductivity of the ionomer, and pore morphology impact durability.
These national laboratories will conduct the foundational technical work in the electrode layers thrust area:
K.C. Neyerlin
Electrode Layers Thrust Coordinator
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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