Low energy plasma treatment of Nafion® membranes for PEM fuel cells
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Low energy plasma treatment of Nafion® membranes for PEM fuel cells Devin Ramdutt a,∗, Christine Charles a, Jessica Hudspeth a, Bradley Ladewig b, Thomas Gengenbach c, Rod Boswell a, Andrew Dicks b, Pascal Brault d a Space Plasma, Power and Propulsion (SP3), Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia b ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia c CSIRO, Molecular & Health Technologies, Melbourne, Vic. 3169, Australia d GREMI-CNRS Laboratory, University of Orléans, BP 6744, F-45067, Orléans, France
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