A method for the manufacturing of electrodes with at least one porous surfacial layer comprising anisotropically shaped electrochemically active particles having a longest axis (a) which is at least 1.5 times longer than the shortest axis (c), and having a...

A process for manufacturing a gas diffusion electrode comprising an electrochemically active layer, a water-repellent layer and an integrated current collector, said process comprising the steps of: (i) preparing said electrochemically active layer compris...

The invention is directed to a barrier layer for corrosion protection in electrochemical devices, e.g. carbon based gas diffusion layers (GDLs) in electrochemical devices, comprising electrically conductive ceramic material and a non-ionomeric polymer bind...

An oxygen consumption electrode has a carrier in the form of a sheet and a coating having gas diffusion layer and catalytic active component. The carrier has conductivity of more than 1000 S/cm, preferably more than 100 S/cm at 20[deg] C.

An oxygen consumption electrode consists of a carrier in the form of a sheet, and a coating with a gas-diffusion layer and a catalytically active component. The coating comprises a fluorine-containing polymer, silver in the form of silver particles and/or ...

A gas diffusion electrode assembly comprises gas diffusion electrodes. A bonding piece having on a surface a perfluorosulfonic acid layer, a perfluorosulfonyl fluoride layer or an alky ester of perfluorocarboxylic acid layer is placed at perfluoro compound...

In order to discharge current from a gas diffusion electrode (10) in an electrolytic unit cell including a gas chamber (11), the gas diffusion electrode is electrically connected to the wall surface of the gas chamber having conductivity through an electri...

A fuel cell design for use at low pressure. The invention has a reduced number of component parts to reduce fabrication costs, as well as a simpler design that permits the size of the system to be reduced at the same time as performance is being improved. ...

A multicell assembly is constituted by alternately stacking two types of preassembled elements: an electrode subassembly including porous mat electrodes on opposite faces of a conductive plate and a membrane subassembly. [0002] Two interleaved orders of pa...

Production of a multiple layered electrode or electrode composite unit comprises rolling a first layer onto a support; and forming at least one further functional layer by spraying a powder. An Independent claim is also included for an electrode having a c...