Fabrication of continuous mesoporous organic-inorganic nanocomposite films for corrosion protection of stainless steel in PEM fuel cells

  • Tao Wang
  • , Jianping He*
  • , Dun Sun
  • , Jianhua Zhou
  • , Yunxia Guo
  • , Xiaochun Ding
  • , Shichao Wu
  • , Jianqing Zhao
  • , Jing Tang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The organic-inorganic composite film was deposited on the 304 stainless steel as bipolar plate material for proton exchange membrane fuel cells by spin-coating method. As shown by XRD, N2 adsorption-desorption and TEM, the composite films exhibit ordered mesoporous structures. The corrosion tests in 0.5M H2SO4 system displayed that, compared with 304SS, the composite films made corrosion potential shifted to positive direction by 250-1000mV (SCE) and corrosion current decreased by 1-3 orders of magnitude. Wherein, the C-50-60% composite film showed the optimal protective performance, its corresponding potentiostatic polarization process was extremely stable in the simulated fuel cells environment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1498-1504
Number of pages7
JournalCorrosion Science
Volume53
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • A. Stainless steel
  • B. Polarization
  • C. Acid corrosion
  • C. Polymer coatings

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