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The world's first highly durable perfluorinated polymer-based membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, under conditions of high temperature and low humidity, has been developed. The newly developed MEA, which is composed of a new perfluorinated polymer composite membrane, reduces the degradation rate to 1/100th to 1/1,000th of that of the conventional MEA. The new perfluorinated polymer composite MEA can be operated for more than 6,000 h at 120°C and 50% relative humidity.
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Endoh, E., Hommura, S. (2009). Improvement of Membrane and Membrane Electrode Assembly Durability. In: Büchi, F.N., Inaba, M., Schmidt, T.J. (eds) Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Durability. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85536-3_6
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