Anticorrosion properties of Ta-coated 316L stainless steel as bipolar plate material in proton exchange membrane fuel cells |
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Authors: | Haijun Yu Lijun Yang Lei Zhu Xuyu Jian Zhong Wang Lijun Jiang |
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Affiliation: | Department of Energy Material and Technology, Beijing General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals, Beijing, 100088, China |
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Abstract: | In order to reduce the cost, volume and weight of the bipolar plates used in the proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC), more attention is being paid to metallic materials, among which 316L stainless steel (SS316L) is quite attractive. In this study, metallic Ta is deposited on SS316L using physical vapor deposition (PVD) to enhance the corrosion resistance of the bipolar plates. Simulative working environment of PEMFC is applied for testing the corrosion property of uncoated and Ta-coated SS316L. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electrochemical methods (potentiodynamic and potentiostatic polarization) are also used for analyzing characteristics of uncoated and Ta-coated SS316L. Results show that, Ta-coated SS316L has significantly better anticorrosion property than that of uncoated SS316L, with corrosion current densities of uncoated SS316L being 44.61 μA cm−2 versus 9.25 μA cm−2 for Ta-coated SS316L, a decrease of about 5 times. Moreover, corrosion current densities of Ta-coated SS316L in both simulative anode (purged with H2) and cathode (purged with air) conditions are smaller than those of uncoated SS316L. |
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Keywords: | Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) Bipolar plate 316L stainless steel (SS316L) Tantalum (Ta) Corrosion current density |
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