{"id":169146,"date":"2023-08-06T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/novel-proton-conductive-membranes-for-automobile-fuel-cells"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:22:47","slug":"novel-proton-conductive-membranes-for-automobile-fuel-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/novel-proton-conductive-membranes-for-automobile-fuel-cells","title":{"rendered":"Novel proton-conductive membranes for automobile fuel cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-proton-conductive-membranes-for-automobile-fuel-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fuel cells are compact energy conversion units that utilize clean energy sources like hydrogen and convert them into electricity through a series of oxidation\u2013reduction reactions. Specifically, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), an integral part of electric vehicles, utilize proton-conductive membranes for operation. Unfortunately, these membranes suffer from a trade-off between high durability and high ion conductivity, affecting the lifetime and performance of PEMFCs.<\/p>\n<p>To overcome this issue, scientists have synthesized chemically and physically modified perfluorosulfonic acid polymer membranes, such as Nafion HP, Nafion XL, and Gore-Select, which have proven to be much more durable than unmodified membranes conventionally employed in fuel-cell operations.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, none of the existing proton-conductive membranes have fulfilled the highly challenging technical target\u2014passing an accelerated durability test or a combined chemical and mechanical test\u2014set by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to facilitate their use in automobile fuel cells by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel cells are compact energy conversion units that utilize clean energy sources like hydrogen and convert them into electricity through a series of oxidation\u2013reduction reactions. Specifically, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), an integral part of electric vehicles, utilize proton-conductive membranes for operation. Unfortunately, these membranes suffer from a trade-off between high durability and high [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}