Table 3.
Properties of composite CE-sPP-PPES + Ce3+ membrane-based MEAs during performance tests.
| Membranes | OCV |
j @ 0.6 V |
Tafel slope |
HFR @ 50 mA/cm2 |
HFR @ 1000 mA/cm2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (V) | (mA/cm2) | (mV/dec) | (mΩ.cm2) | (mΩ.cm2) | |
| 80 °C 100% RH | |||||
| CE-sPP-PPES (15 μm) | 0.937 | 1337 | −43 | 33 | 28 |
| CE-sPP-PPES + Ce3+ (15 μm) | 0.942 | 1011 | −51 | 40 | 36 |
| 80 °C 50% RH | |||||
| CE-sPP-PPES (15 μm) | 0.933 | 878 | −49 | 125 | 85 |
| CE-sPP-PPES + Ce3+ (15 μm) | 0.953 | 767 | −52 | 125 | 115 |