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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2010
Ronald S. Besser, New Providence, NJ (US);
Ronald S. Besser, New Providence, NJ (US);
The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Abstract
A membrane electrode assembly for a high-temperature proton-exchange membrane fuel cell includes a nano-engineered polymeric membrane between an anode and a cathode. The membrane is an electrical insulator, but permits that passage of protons through the membrane. The membrane has a plurality of blind pores therein, each blind pore having an electrically-conductive coating along its inner wall that is in electrical contact with the adjacent one of the anode or cathode. The electrically-conductive coating includes a catalyst, such as platinum, for promoting the liberation of a proton and an electron from a chemical molecule, such as hydrogen, and/or for promoting the combination of a proton, an electron and another molecule, such as oxygen, to form yet another molecule, such as water.