High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells with High Phosphoric Acid Retention

Lim, Katie H.; Matanovic, Ivana; Maurya, Sandip; Kim, Youngkwang; De Castro, Emory S.; Jang, Ji-Hoon; Park, Hyounmyung; Kim, Yu Seung

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02367

Title: High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells with High Phosphoric Acid Retention

Journal Article · Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2022 · ACS Energy Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02367· OSTI ID:1906036

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Advent Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Hyundai Motor Group, Uiwang-si (Korea, Republic of)

Phosphoric acid loss poses immense hurdles for the durability of high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (HT-PEMFCs). Here we report quaternary ammonium-biphosphate ion-pair HT-PEMFCs that do not lose phosphoric acids under normal and accelerated stress conditions. Additionally, our energetics study explains the acid loss behavior of the conventional phosphoric acid-polybenzimidazole (PA-PBI) system by two mechanisms. If PA loss occurs via acid evaporation, the acid loss is constant over time. On the other hand, when water activity in the PA-PBI system is high, exponential decay of PA loss occurs via the water replacement mechanism. Combined ³¹P NMR and computational studies show that the proposed ion-pair system has six times higher interaction energy, which allows for containing all PAs in the membrane electrode assemblies under a broad range of operating conditions. In addition, polar interactions between the phosphonic acid ionomer and phosphoric acid explain acid retention in the electrodes of the ion-pair HT-PEMFCs.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Fuel Cell Technologies Office; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; AR0001003; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1906036

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-22-32502

Journal Information:: ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 1; ISSN 2380-8195

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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