July 2005   Vol. XX   No. 7   ISSN 1080-8019
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July 2005

Illuminated Hybrid Platinum/Semiconductor Electrode Delivers More Output in DMFC

NOTRE DAME, IN - By grafting a semiconductor photocatalyst onto a carbon fiber paper electrode with a platinum-based catalyst, a team of scientists from the University of Notre Dame here and Indiana University Northwest in Gary has come up with a new hybrid electrode for a direct methanol fuel cell that, with light shining on it, produces considerably more power than a straight platinum-catalyzed electrode.


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