Proton exchange membrane fuel cell fabrication process

Kim, C. S., Ghun, Y. G., Peck, D. H., and Shin, D. R. A novel process to fabricate membrane electrode assemblies for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 1998 23 1045-1048. 

This chapter will introduce the reader to the reasons for miniaturizing fuel cells and to the specifications required by this miniaturization. It will then show what kinds of fuel cells can fit to these specifications and which fuels can be employed to supply them. The techniques presently used for the realization of miniature fuel cells will be described, underlining particularly the growing part of the microfabrication techniques inherited from microelectronics. It will present an overview on the apphcations of these latter techniques on miniature fuel cells by presenting several solutions developed throughout the world. It will finally detail, as an example, the complete fabrication process of a particular microfabricated fuel cell based on a silane-grafted porous silicon membrane as the proton-exchange membrane instead of a cortunon ionomer such as Nafion . 

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