What is a Micro Fuel Cell?
The concept of a fuel cell is not new. As a matter of fact, the concept of the fuel cell was developed in 1838 by a German scientist named Christian Friedrich Schonbien. In 1845, Welsh scientist Sir William Robert Grove took this concept and developed the world’s very first fuel cell. However, technology has come a long way since then and we now use the fuel cell in a variety of applications. A micro fuel cell is a transportable power source that produces electrical energy from chemical energy. In general, a fuel cell works under the same principle, but is larger than its micro counterpart, and can have various types of fuel sources. Used as a power source for small electronic devices, a micro fuel cell is a specific type of fuel cell, which uses methanol as its fuel source. A micro fuel cell consists of a membrane that has a catalyst on either side. A catalyst is an agent used to create a chemical reaction, which in the case of a micro fuel cell is water. The anode catalyst will react
