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Progress in Chemistry 2015, Vol. 27 Issue (2/3): 310-320 DOI: 10.7536/PC140827 Previous Articles   

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The Key Materials and Components for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

Wang Cheng*1, Wang Shubo1, Zhang Jianbo2, Li Jianqiu2, Yang Minggao2, Wang Jianlong1   

  1. 1. Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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    The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U1462112),the Program of Internatinal S&T Cooperation (No.2013DFG41460, 2013DFG60080),the State Key Basic Science Research Project of China (No.2012CB215401), and the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2013AA110202).

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Vehicle fuel cells include proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), metal/air fuel cell, etc. The PEMFC is the most promising candidate for automobile application. Through over a decade continuous research and development all over the world, the performances of PEMFC, such as energy efficiency, volume and mass power density, low temperature start ability, have attained breakthrough progress. A new round of fuel cell automobile industrialization has been being approached. However, the properties of durability and cost of the PEMFC system have not met the target of industrialization, and the state of art of durability and cost become the obstacles of PEMFC automobiles industrialization. The novel key materials and components used in the PEMFC should be focused on in the future study, and must be further researched and developed for the two obstacles resolution and the PEMFC industrialization promotion. In this paper, based on a large number of current research articles, the progress and achievement of key materials and components for PEMFC, include proton exchange membrane, catalyst layer, gas diffusion layer, bipolar plate, have been detailed analyzed and classified reviewed. The gap between their state of art and the target of industrialization is analyzed and the emphasis development direction in the future is summarized based on the key materials and components.

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Proton exchange membrane
3 Catalyst layer
3.1 Catalysts
3.2 Support materials for catalysts
3.3 Fabrication technology of catalyst layer
4 Gas diffusion layer
5 Bipolar plate
6 Summary and outlook

Key words: hydrogen energy, fuel cell automobile, catalyst, proton exchange membrane, gas diffusion layer, bipolar plate

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