Atomic metal coordinated to nitrogen-doped carbon electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells: a perspective on progress, pitfalls and prospectives

A Pedersen, A Bagger, J Barrio, F Maillard… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells require reduced construction costs to improve
commercial viability, which can be fueled by elimination of platinum as the O2 reduction …

Decoupling the Contributions of Different Instability Mechanisms to the PEMFC Performance Decay of Non-noble Metal O2-Reduction Catalysts

S Ünsal, R Girod, C Appel, D Karpov… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Non-noble metal catalysts (NNMCs) hold the potential to replace the expensive Pt-based
materials currently used to speed up the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton …

[HTML][HTML] A numerical analysis of the effect of layer-scale and microscopic parameters of membrane electrode assembly in proton exchange fuel cells under two-phase …

PA García-Salaberri, A Sánchez-Ramos - Journal of Power Sources, 2024 - Elsevier
A multiphysics, multiphase, multiscale model of the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) of
a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is presented. The model accounts for …

A numerical assessment of mitigation strategies to reduce local oxygen and proton transport resistances in polymer electrolyte fuel cells

PA García-Salaberri - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The optimized design of the catalyst layer (CL) plays a vital role in improving the
performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The need to improve …

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Overpotential Losses in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

M Fikry, A García-Padilla, J Herranz, P Khavlyuk… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) are expected to play a pivotal role in heavy-duty
transportation, but careful benchmarking of the kinetics of the O2-reduction reaction (ORR) …

Modeling proton exchange membrane fuel cells with platinum-group-metal-free catalysts

PZ Lin, J Sun, CX He, MC Wu, TS Zhao - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Platinum-group-metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts hold great potential to replace their
expensive Platinum-based counterparts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells because of …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of aggregate size and film quality on the electrochemical properties of non-noble metal catalysts in rotating ring disk electrode measurements

S Ünsal, TJ Schmidt, J Herranz - Electrochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-noble metal catalysts (NNMCs) are promising candidates to replace the high-cost Pt-
based catalysts required to catalyze the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in the cathode of …

Gradient catalyst layer design for low-Pt-loading PEM fuel cell based on artificial neural network and multi-objective optimization

Z Liu, WW Yang, JR Zhang, YW Lin, JF Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
The primary challenges facing Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell include high costs and
the limited durability of catalysts. Gradient catalyst layer design has become a promising …

[HTML][HTML] Optimisation and effect of ionomer loading on porous Fe–N–C-based proton exchange membrane fuel cells probed by emerging electrochemical methods

A Pedersen, RZ Snitkoff-Sol, Y Presman, J Barrio… - Journal of Power …, 2024 - Elsevier
The next generation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) require a
substantial reduction or elimination of Pt-based electrocatalyst from the cathode, where O 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of catalyst agglomerate internal structure on PEFC performance investigated by a multiscale numerical model

J Tian, MS Ismail, KJ Hughes, DB Ingham, L Ma… - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
A multiscale modeling framework, which consists of catalyst agglomerate scale and fuel
scale models, has been developed for polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). The …