Advances in direct oxidation methanol fuel cells
S. Surampudi,Sekharipuram R. Narayanan,Eugene Vamos,H. Frank,G. Halpert,Anthony B. Laconti,J. Kosek,G. K. Surya Prakash,G. A. Olah +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a liquid feed direct methanol fuel cell has been developed based on a proton exchange membrane electrolyte and Pt/Ru and Pt catalyzed fuel and air/O2 electrodes, respectively.
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About: This article is published in Journal of Power Sources. The article was published on 15 Jan 1994. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Direct methanol fuel cell & Methanol reformer.
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