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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1988
Richard C Nickols, Jr, East Hartford, CT (US);
International Fuel Cells Corporation, South Windsor, CT (US);
Abstract
The rate of noble metal crystallite recrystallization on a carbon-supported noble metal catalyst is reduced by dispersing two or more different kinds of noble metal-containing crystallites onto the surface of the carbon support. The crystallites have either different unit cell configurations or different unit cell sizes. The reduced rate of noble metal crystallite recrystallization results, over a period of time, in higher crystallite surface area and therefore, better catalyst performance compared to conventional carbon-supported noble metal catalysts. Fuel cells which incorporate such improved catalysts as cathode catalysts are capable of operating at maximum power production for longer periods of time than fuel cells which use conventional catalysts as cathode catalysts.