Supramaniam Srinivasan

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent developments in both the fundamental and technological aspects of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) is presented, where the authors focus on the electrocatalysis of the methanoline oxidation reaction and oxygen electroreduction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on five binary Pi alloys (PtCr/C, PtMn/C and PtFe/C) supported on high surface area carbon in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the fundamental areas of research, which have enabled the rapid advances in the technology development, i.e., transition from polystyrene sulfonic acid to perfluorosulfonic acid membranes, a 10- to 100-fold reduction in the platinum loading in electrode by using nanosize electrocatalyst particles supported on high surface area carbon and impregnation of the proton conducting electrolyte into the active layer of the electrode, optimization of structure of electrode and of membrane and electrode assembly to enhance power densities to 0.5-0.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the temperature dependence of the oxygen reduction kinetics at the Pt/Nafion interface is presented, and the results showed a linear increase of the Tafel slope with temperature in the low current density region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on carbon-supported binary and ternary alloys of Pt in phosphoric acid fuel cells has been reported.