Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systems
Air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells (AO-PEMFCs), with a greatly simplified balance-of-plant concept and compact structure, exhibit advantages of significantly reduced weight, low energy consumption, low operating temperature and low parasitic power. As a new star in research...
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| description | Air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells (AO-PEMFCs), with a greatly simplified balance-of-plant concept and compact structure, exhibit advantages of significantly reduced weight, low energy consumption, low operating temperature and low parasitic power. As a new star in research field of fuel cell, AO-PEMFCs shows great superiority for small-size portable power source, especially unmanned aerial vehicles, backup generators, and off-grid or emergency power applications. In this paper, we outlined recent improvements and advances in AO-PEMFCs, and discussed the fundamental research and technology status, including material developments, structure design, system and stack optimization, as well as their applications. This review aims to comprehensively discuss the research progress of AO-PEMFCs in the scale from micro materials to macro systems by extracting, analyzing and summarizing valid information from current findings, and look forward to future research and development directions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dcae5d372cfc47d6b196317fc999e2f42025-02-09T05:01:46ZengElsevierEnergy Reviews2772-97022025-06-0142100130Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systemsXiaoyu Wu0Shuang Xing1Jun Luo2Haijiang Wang3Fuqiang Huang4Chen Zhao5Research Institute of New Energy Vehicle Technology, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, ChinaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, ChinaShenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, ChinaSouthern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, ChinaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, ChinaShenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China; Corresponding author;Air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells (AO-PEMFCs), with a greatly simplified balance-of-plant concept and compact structure, exhibit advantages of significantly reduced weight, low energy consumption, low operating temperature and low parasitic power. As a new star in research field of fuel cell, AO-PEMFCs shows great superiority for small-size portable power source, especially unmanned aerial vehicles, backup generators, and off-grid or emergency power applications. In this paper, we outlined recent improvements and advances in AO-PEMFCs, and discussed the fundamental research and technology status, including material developments, structure design, system and stack optimization, as well as their applications. This review aims to comprehensively discuss the research progress of AO-PEMFCs in the scale from micro materials to macro systems by extracting, analyzing and summarizing valid information from current findings, and look forward to future research and development directions.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277297022500001XAir-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cellMaterialsStructuresSystems and stacks |
| spellingShingle | Xiaoyu Wu Shuang Xing Jun Luo Haijiang Wang Fuqiang Huang Chen Zhao Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systems Energy Reviews Air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cell Materials Structures Systems and stacks |
| title | Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systems |
| title_full | Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systems |
| title_fullStr | Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systems |
| title_short | Progress and challenges on air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Materials, structures, and systems |
| title_sort | progress and challenges on air cooled open cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells materials structures and systems |
| topic | Air-cooled open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cell Materials Structures Systems and stacks |
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