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Enhanced Proton Conductivity and Methanol Permeability Reduction via Sodium Alginate Electrolyte-Sulfonated Graphene Oxide Bio-membrane

Nanoscale Research Letters, 2018
The high methanol crossover and high cost of Nafion® membrane are the major challenges for direct methanol fuel cell application. With the aim of solving these problems, a non-Nafion polymer electrolyte membrane with low methanol permeability and high ...
N. Shaari, S. K. Kamarudin, S. Basri, L. K. Shyuan, M. S. Masdar, D. Nordin   +5 more
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Matching the Coupling of Valence Electrons in the Oxide Interface to Perturb the Magnetic Order Enhancing Oxygen Reduction in Zinc–Air Batteries

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Sub‐5 nm Fe2O3/Sm2O3 heterojunction nanoparticles are anchored on nitrogen‐doped carbon nanofibers, featuring coupled Fe(3d)‐O(2p)‐Sm(4f) orbitals at the interface. The resulting super‐exchange induces antiparallel magnetic ordering at heterointerfaces, suppressing spin‐dependent interaction between surface OH* species and Fe sites to facilitate OH ...
Jing Li, Ningkang Peng, Jianhua Ma, Tingyu Lu, Haibin Zhu, Guangyao Zhou, Yizhou Zhang, Yanhui Gu, Yawen Tang, Hao Li   +9 more
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A Decoupled Cycling Architecture of Asymmetric Zinc‐Air Battery Unlocks Stable Catalyst Strategy and pH‐Dynamic Influence

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
A decoupled cycling architecture along with cost‐effective membrane and efficient catalyst is developed for asymmetric zinc‐air battery. The decoupled design ensures stable operation of catalyst and the pH‐dynamic influence on battery performance is explored, which provides paths for efficient utilization of pH‐decoupling electrolytes.
Yeshu Tan, Ruinan Wang, Jiawen Huang, Runzhe Chen, Jiaxin Yuan, Siyuan Zhao, Meng Ni   +6 more
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Vapor-feed direct methanol fuel cells using pure methanol

Energy Conversion and Management: X
This work optimizes the performance of the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) to increase its efficiency and strengthen its validity in portable power generation.
Ryan Spragg, Xianglin Li
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Aqueous proton-selective conduction across two-dimensional graphyne

Nature Communications, 2019
Aqueous proton-selective membranes are vital for methanol fuel cells and flow batteries, but suffer from crossover issues. Here the authors use ab initio molecular dynamics simulations to show that graphyne is an ideal candidate for a proton-selective ...
Le Shi, Ao Xu, Ding Pan, Tianshou Zhao
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Selectivity of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Membranes

Membranes, 2015
Sulfonic acid-functionalized polymer electrolyte membranes alternative to Nafion® were developed. These were hydrocarbon systems, such as blend sulfonated polyetheretherketone (s-PEEK), new generation perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) systems, and composite
Antonino S. Aricò, David Sebastian, Michael Schuster, Bernd Bauer, Claudia D'Urso, Francesco Lufrano, Vincenzo Baglio   +6 more
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Microfluidic Direct Methanol Fuel Cell with Ladder-Shaped Microchannel for Decreased Methanol Crossover

International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2013
In this work, the design and fabrication of a planar, glass- polydimethylsiloxane based microfluidic direct methanol fuel cell with ladder-shaped microchannel are presented.
Weiwei Huo, Yi Zhou, Haifeng Zhang, Zhiqing Zou, Hui Yang   +4 more
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Giant Conductivity Modulation and Chemical Neuromodulation via Proton‐Electron Coupling in a Hydrogen‐Bonded Coordination Polymer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A “de‐doping” strategy positions mixed protonic–electronic conductors (MPECs) as adaptive neuromorphic platforms with dynamically tunable transport. Co‐BAND achieves giant conductivity modulation (>106) and chemically tunable synaptic plasticity. Analogous to biological neuromodulation, solvent vapors dynamically reprogram the device's learning rules ...
Kwangmin Park, Jumin Park, Huiyeong Ju, Nasim Arafat, Byoung Gwan Lee, Joohee Oh, Eejin Jang, Hyunseob Lim, Seok Min Yoon, Dae‐Woon Lim, Intek Song   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of thermo-mechanical behavior, proton transfer and methanol permeation of polymer electrolyte membrane in low sulfonated state modified with thermally stable surface functionalized graphene oxide nanosheets

Polymer Testing, 2021
Sulfonated polyether ether ketone is currently under investigation to replace the expensive Nafion® as polymer electrolyte membrane. Sulfonic acid group is hydrophilic in nature and plays a key role in proton transfer in polymer electrolyte membranes ...
Sher Ayaz, Hai-Yin Yu
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Emerging Materials and Future Strategies for Solid Oxide Electrochemical Cells

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Solid oxide electrochemical cells operate under strongly coupled electrochemical and thermodynamic conditions, where performance is constrained by interactions among crystal structure, defect chemistry, and interfacial evolution. This review, based on a structure‐defect‐property‐durability framework, reveals the roles of lattice symmetry and defect ...
Qiuchun Lu, Yufei Zhang, Han Zhao, Pooi See Lee, Daniel H.C. Chua   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source