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Water gradient manipulation through the polymer electrolyte membrane of an operating microfluidic water electrolyzer

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ccKRAUSE, Kevin
1002421 Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie [I2M]
CRÊTE-LAURENCE, Adèle
1002421 Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie [I2M]
MICHAU, Dominique
525101 Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux [ICMCB]
CLISSON, Gérald
50686 Laboratoire du Futur [LOF]
ccBATTAGLIA, Jean-Luc
1002421 Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie [I2M]
ccCHEVALIER, Stéphane
1002421 Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie [I2M]

URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10985/25611
DOI
10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.235297
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https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0378775324012497-mmc1.pdf
Date
2024-12
Journal
Journal of Power Sources

Abstract

The key component of a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water splitting electrolyzer is its membrane. Despite decades of research, the transport phenomena occurring within the membrane during electrolysis – which are vital to the device’s efficiency – have yet to be fully understood. In this work, controlling the anolyte concentration can effectively be used to tune the PEM water gradient, but it comes with a tradeoff in electro- chemical performance. Infrared (IR) imaging is coupled with electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and dis- tribution of relaxation times to elucidate the relationship between membrane hydration and ohmic, kinetic, and mass transport losses. Varied H2SO4 anolyte concentrations manifested water diffusion gradients through the PEM of the electrolyzer, where the strongest water diffusion gradients | Δλfit | (relative to open circuit voltage) were observed for the most concentrated anolyte. However, tuning the anolyte concentration came with a tradeoff between a lower ohmic resistance (from 4.4 Ω cm 2 to 4.0 Ω cm 2 for 0.1 mol L 1 to 1.0 mol L 1 H2SO4 anolyte) and higher kinetic and mass transport losses accompanied by increasingly unstable performance. These findings showcase the potential of IR imaging when coupled with a microfluidic PEM electrolyzer and

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