2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Observation of produced water on monolithically fabricated miniature fuel cell
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22510126
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Microdevices/Nanodevices
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Science |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | マイクロ化学システム / 燃料電池 / MEMS / 微細加工 / 多孔質シリコン |
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| Research Abstract |
Observation of produced water on a fuel channel bottom was demonstrated. It was found that poor performance cell showed significant variation of water production inside the fuel cell chip. Some observations suggested that the residual porous Si between the channel bottom and the catalyst layer had bad impact on the cell performance by blocking fuel supply. Removal of the residual porous Si was attempted and higher performance was demonstrated by the elimination of the residual porous Si.
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