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Fuel cells: Operating flexibly

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Fuel cells typically function well only in rather limited temperature and humidity ranges. Now, a proton exchange membrane consisting of ion pair complexes is shown to enable improved fuel cell performance under a wide range of conditions that are unattainable with conventional approaches.

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Figure 1: Molecular representations of fuel cell membranes.

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  1. Young Moo Lee is in the Department of Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seungdong-gu, Seoul, 133-791, South Korea.,

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