Carbon Support

FUEL CELL

Carbon Support

VINATech Carbon Control Technologies

The carbon support is a key material for fuel cell catalyst, and the efficiency and durability of the fuel cell are greatly affected by the characteristics of the carbon support.

VINATech has own mass production technology by commercializing carbon support based on carbon control technology.

VINATech is promoting application and commercialization of other advanced technologies in addition to the currently secured carbon surface/shape control technology, activated carbon and carbon composite technology.
Through continuous development, we are developing carbon support that can further improve the efficiency and durability of fuel cells.

[ Carbon shape/surface control technology ]

[ Carbon activation technology ]

VINATech's patents in carbon materials

You can scroll the content left and right.

Patent No.	Patent Title	Year of application
IPC B82B-003/00 10-0483803-0000	Fiber form nano carbon composition formula	2002
PCT/KR2003/002180 US7470418 B2	Ultra-fine Fibrous Carbon And Preparation Method Thereof	2003
PCT/KR2005/004596 US20090004095 A1	Porous Filamentous Nano Carbon And Method Of Forming The Same	2005
10-1774706	Manufacturing method of catalyst support and fuel cell catalyst including the same	2017
US 10,511,029 B2	Method for Manufacturing Catalyst Support and Catalyst for Fuel Cell	2019

VINATech’s carbon support

Carbon support has the following characteristics :

- Various type of carbon support
- High electrical conductivity, high mesopore ratio, high surface area
- High anti-corrosion(high crystallinity)
- Uniform edge surface: high affinity with catalyst

You can scroll the content left and right.

Type

Microscopic pictures

Forming structures

Surface Edges

PCNF

Perpendicular to the fiber axis

Diameter : 80~350 nm

d002 : 3.36Å

Lc002 : 30 nm

HCNF

Symmetrically angled to the fiber axis

Diameter : 10~80 nm

d002 : 3.4~3.5Å

Lc002 : 1~5 nm

[ Carbon support SEM/TEM image ]

VINATech Carbon support product

You can scroll the content left and right.

Division	*BET(m2/g)	*XRD(d002)(nm)	Type	Structure
VFS-P	60~70	0.336~0.338	CNF	Platelet
VFS-H	100~150	0.340~0.345	CNF	Herringbone
VFS-SP	400~800	0.345~0.355	Carbon black	Sphere

*1. BET : The specific surface area in accordance with the theories of Brunauer-Emmett-Teller

*2. XRD(d002) : inter-layer distance generated by the diffraction of X-ray

[ Principle of carbon corrosion in fuel cell ]

[ Corrosion resistance comparison of VINATech's carbon support ]

PEMFC MEA_carbon support AST (AST: Accelerated Stress Test)

Electrochemical analysis (High voltage durability test) of MEA in Single cell (7-Layers, 25㎠)

Test Condition

T Cell : 60°C

P Cell : An / Ca = 1 bar / 1 bar

Flow : H2 / N2 = 200cc / 600cc

RH : An / Ca = 100% / 100%

Cycle : 500 mV/s (1.0-1.5V , 5k cycling)
Test Condition

Cycle : 500 mV/s (1.0-1.5V , 5k cycling)