腐蚀
材料科学
偏压
溅射沉积
质子交换膜燃料电池
无定形固体
X射线光电子能谱
基质(水族馆)
离子镀
无定形碳
碳钢
电导率
冶金
复合材料
薄膜
溅射
化学工程
涂层
膜
电压
化学
纳米技术
电气工程
海洋学
生物化学
有机化学
地质学
物理化学
工程类
作者
Feifei Bi,Kun Hou,Peiyun Yi,Linfa Peng,Xinmin Lai
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.06.122
摘要
Stainless steel bipolar plates possess good manufacturability, low costs, but inadequate interfacial conductivity and corrosion resistance in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Amorphous carbon films have been deposited on stainless steel as a function of bias voltage through closed field unbalanced magnetron sputtering ion plating system (CFUMSIP) to enhance the interfacial conductivity and corrosion resistance. Surface and cross-section morphologies, hybridization, interfacial conductivity, corrosion resistance and degradation mechanisms of a-C films were systemically investigated and results are very sensitive to the substrate bias voltage. The compactness and hybridization sp2/sp3 ratio have parabolic relation with the substrate bias voltage and the a-C film deposited with 120 V has the densest cross structure and maximum sp3 percentage. Various electrochemical corrosion tests in the simulated PEMFCs cathode environment confirm the fact corrosion resistance is closely related to the film compactness and hybridization. Then a-C film prepared at bias voltage 120 V has the lowest corrosion current density. The initial interfacial contact resistance (ICR) of a-C is a combination result of sp2 percentage and film compactness and the samples deposited with bias voltage 60 V and 300 V have much lower ICR values than DOE target. Afterwards, the ICR increase mechanism of a-C film after electrochemical corrosion tests is illustrated through Raman and XPS detection, and the results reveal that increased oxygen content adsorbed on the film surface contributes to the increase of ICR value.
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