US Patent Issued on Feb. 3 for "Ion conducting layer for fuel cells suppressing crossover phenomenon and fuel cell comprising the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,293, issued on Feb. 3.

"Ion conducting layer for fuel cells suppressing crossover phenomenon and fuel cell comprising the same" was invented by Jung Seok Yi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an ion conducting layer for fuel cells, through which ions generated by oxidation of liquid fuel pass before the ions reach a membrane in a fuel cell. The ion conducting layer includes: a substrate into which the liquid fuel and an electrolyte are introduced; and pores formed in the substrate, wherein the pores are formed at a porosity of 10% or more in the substrate to suppress a crossover phenomenon in which the liq...