TY - JOUR
T1 - Progress and perspectives in micro direct methanol fuel cell
AU - Sundarrajan, Subramanian
AU - Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I.
AU - Ramakrishna, Seeram
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the funding support of the A-STAR , Singapore under the project Fabrication of Novel Nanocomposite Filter Membranes for Understanding Basic Principles and Their Advanced Technology Applications under the grant number R398-000-041-305 and Green Processing of Nanofibers under the grant number R-265-000-318-112 . This work was also supported by grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Nos. 11-04-01389a and 11-04-92690a ), the Russian Ministry of Science and Education (No: 16.740.11.0176 ), and the Molecular and Cell Biology Programs of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - Micro Direct Methanol Fuel cells (μDMFC) are of considerable interest for both academic laboratories and industries to commercialize, since the energy demand has been increased. Although intensive researches are conducted to understand μDMFC, many challenges still remain to be solved to exploit them for real commercial applications. The pros and cons of various substrate materials used and various designs fabricated so far for fuel delivery are highlighted. One of the existing problems is membrane swelling, which has been reduced by the polymer modification recently. The removal of evolved CO 2 gas in the anode and reduction of water flooding in the cathode are accomplished through the advanced materials fabrication is discussed. The important parameters such as fuel, water, air and thermal managements to increase cell performance by material manipulation and design are outlined in this review. A handful of companies are trying μDMFC technology toward real commercial strides. We have also presented an update of the achievements so far by these companies.
AB - Micro Direct Methanol Fuel cells (μDMFC) are of considerable interest for both academic laboratories and industries to commercialize, since the energy demand has been increased. Although intensive researches are conducted to understand μDMFC, many challenges still remain to be solved to exploit them for real commercial applications. The pros and cons of various substrate materials used and various designs fabricated so far for fuel delivery are highlighted. One of the existing problems is membrane swelling, which has been reduced by the polymer modification recently. The removal of evolved CO 2 gas in the anode and reduction of water flooding in the cathode are accomplished through the advanced materials fabrication is discussed. The important parameters such as fuel, water, air and thermal managements to increase cell performance by material manipulation and design are outlined in this review. A handful of companies are trying μDMFC technology toward real commercial strides. We have also presented an update of the achievements so far by these companies.
KW - Hydrogen production
KW - Material fabrication
KW - Methanol
KW - Micro direct methanol fuel cell
KW - Polymer membranes
KW - Portable electronics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.12.017
DO - 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.12.017
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84860375560
VL - 37
SP - 8765
EP - 8786
JO - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
JF - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
SN - 0360-3199
IS - 10
ER -
