Development of an air-breathing direct methanol fuel cell with the cathode shutter current collectors |
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Authors: | Yufeng Zhang Peng Zhang Bo Zhang Jianmin Li Huichao Deng Xiaowei Liu |
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Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Micro-Systems and Micro-Structures Manufacturing, Ministry of Education, Harbin 150001, China;2. MEMS Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China |
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Abstract: | An air-breathing direct methanol fuel cell with a novel cathode shutter current collector is fabricated to develop the power sources for consumer electronic devices. Compared with the conventional circular cathode current collector, the shutter one improves the oxygen consumption and mass transport. The anode and cathode current collectors are made of stainless steel using thermal stamping die process. Moreover, an encapsulation method using the tailor-made clamps is designed to assemble the current collectors and MEA for distributing the stress of the edges and inside uniformly. It is observed that the maximum power density of the air-breathing DMFC operating with 1 M methanol solution achieves 19.7 mW/cm2 at room temperature. Based on the individual DMFCs, the air-breathing stack consisting of 36 DMFC units is achieved and applied to power a notebook computer. |
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Keywords: | Direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) Air-breathing Cathode current collector Shutter |
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