Micro & nano-engineering of fuel cells / Micro & nano-engineering of fuel cells /

Contents
1 : Pore-scale water transport investigation for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Basics of cell performance and water management
1.3 Water transport in the cell channels
1.4 Water transport in gas diffusion layers
1.5 Water transport through micro-porous layers (MPL)
Etc.

2 : Reconstruction of PEM fuel cell electrodes with micro- and nano-structures
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Catalyst layers’ structure: a reason to reconstruct
2.3 New material support and new catalyst approaches
2.4 Concluding remarks

3 : Multi-scale model techniques for PEMFC catalyst layers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Models and simulation methods at different scales
3.3 Multi-scale model integration technique
3.4 Challenges in multi-scale modeling for PEMFC CLs
3.5 Conclusions

4 : Fabrication of electro-catalytic nano-particles and applications to proton exchange membrane fuel cells
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Overview of the electro-catalytic reactions
4.3 Novel nano-structures of platinum
4.4 Binary and ternary platinum-based catalysts
4.5 New electro-catalyst supports
4.6 Conclusions

5 : Ordered mesoporous carbon-supported nano-platinum catalysts: application in direct methanol fuel cells
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Ordered mesoporous silicas
5.3 Ordered mesoporous carbons
5.4 Direct methanol fuel cell
5.5 Electrocatalysts for DMFC
Etc.

6 : Modeling the coupled transport and reaction processes in a micro-solid-oxide fuel cell
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Model development
6.3 Numerical methodologies
6.4 Results and discussion
6.5 Conclusions

7 : Nano-structural effect on SOFC durability
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Aging mechanism of SOFC electrodes
7.3 Stability of nano-structured electrodes
7.4 Long-term performance of nano-structured electrodes
7.5 Summary

8 : Micro- and nano-technologies for microbial fuel cells
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Electricity generation fundamental
8.3 Prior art of miniaturized MFCs
8.4 Promises and future work of miniaturized MFCs
8.5 Conclusion

9 : Microbial fuel cells: the microbes and materials
9.1 Introduction
9.2 How microbial fuel cells work
9.3 Understanding exoelectrogens
9.4 Anode materials and modifications
9.5 Cathode materials and catalysts
Etc.

10 : Modeling and analysis of miniaturized packed-bed reactors for mobile devices powered by fuel cells
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Reactor and fuel cell modeling
10.3 Applications
10.4 Conclusions

11 : Photocatalytic fuel cells
11.1 Introduction
11.2 PFC concept
11.3 PFC architecture and mechanisms
11.4 Electrochemical kinetics
11.5 PFC applications
11.6 Conclusion

12. Transport phenomena and reactions in micro-fluidic aluminum-air fuel cells
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Mathematical model
12.3 Numerical procedures
12.4 Results and discussion
12.5 Conclusions

Includes bibliographical references and index p. 299-301