Morphological diversity of platinum clusters deposited on proton-exchange, perfluorinated membranes

This article is a summary of a talk that was presented during the fuel-cell session of the ‘12th Annual Meeting of the North American Membrane Society’, which was held on 15–20 May 2001, in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. It describes methods to control the morphology of a platinum catalyst, which is chemically deposited onto proton-exchange, perfluorinated membranes. Potential applications of the membranes are discussed and an extensive list of related references is provided. Some general considerations on heterogeneous membrane electrocatalysis are also given. This topic is one of the research interests of Membrane Technology's editorial board member Dr Dmitri Bessarabov, who has recently joined Kvaerner Chemetics (a division of Kvaerner Canada Inc) as a senior research chemist.