On-Chip Fuel Cell: Micro Direct Methanol Fuel Cell of an Air-Breathing, Membraneless, and Monolithic Design

This paper proposes a novel design for a microfuel cell as an on-chip power source and demonstrates its fabrication and operation to prove the concept. Its simple design is important from the viewpoints of fabrication (e.g., replication), integration, and compatibility with other microdevices. In te...

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Published inJournal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 130; no. 32; pp. 10456 - 10457
Main Authors Tominaka, Satoshi, Ohta, Sousuke, Obata, Hiroyuki, Momma, Toshiyuki, Osaka, Tetsuya
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Chemical Society 13.08.2008
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Summary:This paper proposes a novel design for a microfuel cell as an on-chip power source and demonstrates its fabrication and operation to prove the concept. Its simple design is important from the viewpoints of fabrication (e.g., replication), integration, and compatibility with other microdevices. In testing, the prototype cell was able to generate electric power (maximum: ca. 1.4 μW) on methanol without pumps under both neutral and acidic conditions. As for the size, the electrode part of the cell (two cathodes and one anode) is 400 μm in width and 6 mm in length. The evaluation demonstrated that the proposed design is a promising on-chip power source for miniature devices.
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Materials and detailed fabrication procedures; scheme of the preparation procedure; schematic illustration of Figure a; additional SEM images and a photograph; I−V curves obtained at a fast scan (1 s/point).This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.
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ISSN:0002-7863
1520-5126
DOI:10.1021/ja8024214