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US 2006/0040168 A1Published application
Nanostructured fuel cell electrode
AssigneeIon America Corporation
InventorK. R. Sridhar
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Abstract
A fuel cell includes an electrolyte, a first electrode, and a second electrode. At least the first electrode comprises a nanostructured material.
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A fuel cell, comprising:
- an electrolyte;
- a first electrode;
- and
- a second electrode;
- wherein at least the first electrode comprises a nanostructured material.
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A method of forming a plurality of metal nanostructures, comprising:
- forming a plurality of metal oxide nanostructures on a substrate;
- and
- annealing the nanostructures in a reducing atmosphere to convert the metal oxide nanostructures to metal nanostructures.
A method of making metal oxide nanowires, comprising:
- providing a mixture of a first metal oxide source material and a second material with a lower melting point than the first metal oxide source material;
- sublimating the first and the second materials to provide a nanowire source vapor;
- and
- growing the metal oxide nanowires on a substrate from the source vapor.
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A method of making metal oxide nanowires, comprising:
- providing an oxygen flux onto a metal substrate to form metal oxide nucleation regions;
- and
- providing additional oxygen flux to the nucleation regions to form the metal oxide nanowires at the nucleation regions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.