Fabrication of bifunctional membrane electrode assemblies for unitised regenerative polymer electrolyte fuel cells
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Introduction: The conversion and storage of energy with a high efficiency, especially a high specific energy, will be an important factor in future energy storage technologies. The relatively simple possibility to store hydrogen and oxygen with high specific energy combined with high energy conversion efficiency in fuel cells and electrolyser presents an opportunity for the use of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) unitised regenerative fuel cell systems (URFCs) as energy storage devices [1, 2]. A URFC is an electrochemical cell working both as a fuel cell and as a water electrolyser (see Fig. 1).
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