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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2002
Srinivasan Venkatesan, Southfield, MI (US);
Boyko Aladjov, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Subhash K. Dhar, Bloomfield, MI (US);
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Texaco Ovonic Fuel Cell UC, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
Fuel cell oxygen electrodes and instant startup fuel cells employing the oxygen electrode. The oxygen electrodes operate through the mechanism of redox couples which uniquely provide multiple degrees of freedom in selecting the operating voltages available for such fuel cells. Such oxygen electrodes provide the fuel cells in which they are used a “buffer” or “charge” of oxidizer available within the oxygen electrode at all times. The redox couple materials are modified to inhibit dissolution of the materials into the alkaline electrolyte of the fuel cell, and to match the gas phase kinetics of the active redox couple material with its electrochemical kinetics.