{"id":405,"date":"2021-08-03T16:49:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T07:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mecc-nano.com\/news\/?p=405"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T05:59:48","slug":"to-improve-performance-of-fuel-cells-using-platinum-supported-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/news\/405\/","title":{"rendered":"To improve performance of fuel cells using platinum-supported graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We delivered our electrospinning system<a href=\"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/member\/nanon-04\/\"> NANON-01B<\/a> to the Energy Conversion System Lab of Professor<\/p>\n<p>Tabe and Associate Professor Uemura at Hokkaido National University.<\/p>\n<p>The Lab is making a research of improving performance of fuel cells using platinum-supported graphene.<\/p>\n<p>The outline and the schema by Associate Professor Uemura are as follows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-shareaholic-thumbnail wp-image-406\" src=\"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/\u5317\u6d77\u9053\u5927\u5b66\u8cc7\u659901-640x645.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Making the best structure of the catalyst layer where hydrogen and oxygen react to realize higher performance<\/p>\n<p>and lower cost of fuel cells.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Conventional catalyst layers have 10\u03bcm-thick porous structures where platinum-supported<\/p>\n<p>carbon nanoparticles are covered with polymers (ionomer).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen ions (protons) will be carried by ionomers to the surface of platinum when generating electricity,<\/p>\n<p>however, the performance of generation will decrease because ionomers will be a factor to impede<\/p>\n<p>transportation of oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then, our research group has started research and development of a brand new catalyst layer structure<\/p>\n<p>to decrease impedance of transportation of oxygen using platinum-supported graphene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the experiments we are planning to form porous structures utilizing characteristics of nanofibers to improve<\/p>\n<p>performance of fuel cells.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-shareaholic-thumbnail wp-image-408\" src=\"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/KIMG0173-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-shareaholic-thumbnail wp-image-409\" src=\"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/KIMG0156-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-shareaholic-thumbnail wp-image-410\" src=\"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/KIMG0158-640x780.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p>William\u00a0Smith\u00a0Clark\u00a0(U.S.)<br \/>\nBotanist\u00a0and\u00a0Agronomist<br \/>\nInvited\u00a0to\u00a0Sapporo\u00a0Agricultural\u00a0School\u00a0(currently<br \/>\nSapporo\u00a0National\u00a0University)\u00a0in\u00a01876\u00a0and\u00a0taught<br \/>\nstudents\u00a0natural\u00a0science.<br \/>\nFamous\u00a0for\u00a0his\u00a0words\u00a0&#8220;Boys,\u00a0be\u00a0ambitious!&#8221;    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We delivered our electrospinning system NANON-01B to the Energy Conversion System Lab of Professor Tabe and Associate Professor Uemura at Hokkaido National University. The Lab is making a research of improving performance of fuel cells using platinum<a href=\"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/news\/405\/\" class=\"excerpt_link\">\u226b more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18572,"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/18572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecc-jp.com\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}