Maximization of Power Density of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell for Greener Energy Generation Using Beetle Antennae Search Algorithm and Fuzzy Modeling [PDF]
Biomimetics, 2023 Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) are promising form of energy conversion technology that have the potential to take the role of lithium-ion batteries in portable electronics and electric cars.
Ahmed Al Shouny +6 more
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Insights on hexavalent chromium(VI) remediation strategies in abiotic and biotic dual chamber microbial fuel cells: electrochemical, physical, and metagenomics characterizations [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is one of the most carcinogenic and mutagenic toxins, and is commonly released into the environemt from different industries, including leather tanning, pulp and paper manufacturing, and metal finishing.
Dena Z. Khater +4 more
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Dynamic tracking of objects in the macaque dorsomedial frontal cortex [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsA central tenet of cognitive neuroscience is that humans build an internal model of the external world and use mental simulation of the model to perform physical inferences.
Rishi Rajalingham +2 more
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Water Management for μDMFC with Foamed Stainless Steel Cathode Current Collector
Nanomaterials, 2022 For micro direct methanol fuel cell (μDMFC), water flooding on the cathode seriously affects the performance stability. Additionally, the effect of material and wettability of the cathode current collector (CCC) on the drainage capacity is studied to ...
Fan Zhang, Yanhui Zhang, Zhengang Zhao
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Membranes, 2022 Nafion, a perfluorosulfonic acid proton exchange membrane (PEM), has been widely used in direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) to serve as a proton carrier, methanol barrier, and separator for the anode and cathode.
Wei Wuen Ng +4 more
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Investigation on voltage loss mechanism for direct methanol fuel cell
Energy Reports, 2023 Direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) is a device which converts chemical potential energy into electrical energy through the electrochemical reaction that involves oxidation of methanol.
A. Ismail, Y.W. Kee
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Brain Stimulation, 2020 Background: Recent evidence suggests that the dorsal medial frontal cortex (dMFC) may make an important contribution to perceptual decision-making, and not only to motor control. Objective/hypothesis: By fitting psychometric functions to behavioural data
Lina Willacker +4 more
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Numerical investigation of methanol crossover through the membrane in a direct methanol fuel cell [PDF]
Hydrogen, Fuel Cell & Energy Storage, 2018 A two-dimensional, single-phase, isothermal model has been developed for a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). The model considers the anode and cathode electrochemical equations, continuity, momentum and species transport in the entire fuel cell.
Shima Sharifi +3 more
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Heat and Mass Balance Analysis of 130-W Active-type Direct-methanol Fuel Cell
Electrochemistry, 2022 A “heat- and mass-balance analysis” for a direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) system, accounting for actual experimental data and the heat- and mass transfer of the DMFC, is proposed to facilitate the usage of general spreadsheet software.
Shinsuke ANDOH +4 more
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Facile solvothermal synthesis of Pt-Cu nanocatalyst with improved electrocatalytic activity toward methanol oxidation [PDF]
Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 2019 A binary metal nanocatalyst of platinum and copper was synthesized using a facile solvothermal process (polyol method). The synthesized catalyst was characterized using energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission ...
Mehmood Muhammad Haris +5 more
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