Inkjet Printing Meets Electrochemical Energy Conversion.
Inkjet printing is a very powerful digital and mask-less microfabrication technique that has attracted the attention of several research groups working on electrochemical energy conversion concepts. In this short review, an overview is given about recent efforts to employ inkjet printing for the search of new electrocatalyst materials and for the preparation of catalyst layers for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. Recent approaches of the Laboratory of Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry (LEPA) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne for the inkjet printing of catalyst layers and membrane electrode assemblies are presented and future energy research directions of LEPA based on inkjet printing in the new Energypolis campus in the Canton of Valais are summarized.
Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Physique et Analytique, EPFL-Valais, Rue de l'Industrie 17, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland.
Andreas
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Lesch
Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Physique et Analytique, EPFL-Valais, Rue de l'Industrie 17, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland.
Fernando
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Cortés-Salazar
Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Physique et Analytique, EPFL-Valais, Rue de l'Industrie 17, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland.
Victor Costa
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Bassetto
Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Physique et Analytique, EPFL-Valais, Rue de l'Industrie 17, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland.
Véronique
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Amstutz
Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Physique et Analytique, EPFL-Valais, Rue de l'Industrie 17, CH-1950 Sion, Switzerland. hubert.girault@epfl.ch.
Hubert H
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Girault