Miniaturized Fuel Cell Systems for Portable or Wearable Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2016) | Viewed by 688
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Interests: organ on a chip; microfluidic systems; biosensors; CTCs/CTM diagnosis; single cell analysis
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Interests: MEMS; micro fuel cell technology; hydrogen energy
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Dear Colleagues,
How to get sufficient electricity from new power resources with low- or even zero-carbon emission has recently become an important research topic in the discovery of a healthier way to sustain longer human lifespans. Hydrogen energy or hydrogen fuel cells, which possess the advantages of high energy density, low- or zero-carbon emission, and quick fuel reloading, have been emerging as an option for clean energy sources. Fuel cell systems can be widely applied to different energy scales, ranging from multi-megawatts to micro-watts. Even though the commercialization of large size fuel cells (tens- to mega-Watts) has already achieved remarkable progress, for milli- to several-watts fuel cells, the size and performance is still not comparable to their counterparts in the large scale, according to different physical phenomena, fluidic management methods, and packaging issues, which dominate the performance of the miniaturized fuel cell systems. However, the milli- to several-Watts fuel cell systems can be well applied to portable or wearable devices, such as smart watches, mobile phones, portable rechargers, tablet PCs, or laptops. As a result, miniaturized technologies, such as MEMS or nanotechnology, have been wisely introduced into this field, not only to reduce the size and integrate the whole device, but also to boost the performance of miniaturized fuel cell systems by enhancing the mass, heat, and momentum transportation rates in fuel cell systems. Nowadays, the power density of single micro fuel cells has significantly approached 1000mW/cm2, meaning that miniaturized fuel cell systems have a high potential to be the next-generation power sources for portable applications. Therefore, this Special Issue is honored to invite the latest research developments, in either article or review format, concerning the advanced technologies for miniaturized fuel cell systems using MEMS or nanotechnology.
Prof. Dr. Fan-Gang Tseng
Dr. Hsueh Sheng Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Micro fuel cell
- micro reformer
- flexible fuel cell
- portable fuel cell
- wearable fuel cell
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