Membraneless vanadium redox fuel cell using laminar flow

Rosaria Ferrigno; Abraham D Stroock; Thomas D Clark; Michael Mayer; George M Whitesides

doi:10.1021/ja020812q

Membraneless vanadium redox fuel cell using laminar flow

J Am Chem Soc. 2002 Nov 6;124(44):12930-1. doi: 10.1021/ja020812q.

Authors

Rosaria Ferrigno¹, Abraham D Stroock, Thomas D Clark, Michael Mayer, George M Whitesides

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

PMID: 12405803
DOI: 10.1021/ja020812q

Abstract

This paper describes the design and characterization of a small, membraneless redox fuel cell. The smallest channel dimensions of the cell were 2 mm x 50 mum or x 200 mum; the cell was fabricated in poly(dimethylsiloxane) using soft lithography. This all-vanadium fuel cell took advantage of laminar flow to obviate the need for a membrane to separate the solutions of oxidizing and reducing components.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Carbon / chemistry
Electrochemistry / instrumentation
Electrochemistry / methods*
Electrodes
Energy-Generating Resources
Gold / chemistry
Oxidation-Reduction
Vanadium / chemistry*

Substances

Vanadium
Carbon
Gold