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Published on: November 11, 2013
SPring-8 BL36XU: Synchrotron Radiation X-Ray-Based Multi-Analytical Beamline for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells under
Tomoya Uruga1,2, Mizuki Tada3,4, Oki Sekizawa1,2
1Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cells, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan.
Abstract:
We designed and constructed a beamline BL36XU at the 8 GeV synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8 to provide information required for the development of next-generation polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) by clarifying the dynamic aspects of structures and electronic states of cathode catalysts under PEFC operating conditions and in the deterioration processes by accelerated durability test protcols. To investigate the mechanism and degradation process for the cathode electrocatalysis in practical PEFCs, we developed advanced time- and spatially-resolved in-situ/operando X-ray absorption fine structure measurement systems and complementary analytical systems (X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray computer tomography (CT) and hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES)) and combined them to develop multi-analytical systems at BL36XU. Multi-analytical systems are very powerful for observing spatial-temporal features of the transient processes occurring in complex systems such as PEFCs. This account describes the design, performance, and research results of the BL36XU and multi-analytical in-situ/operando systems.
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