SPring-8 BL36XU: Catalytic Reaction Dynamics for Fuel Cells

Authors :: Oki Sekizawa
Masaki Takata
Yasuhide Ishizawa
Eiji Ikenaga
Hironori Ohashi
Togo Kudo
Toshihiko Yokoyama
H. Tanida
Mizuki Tada
A. Watanabe
Sunao Takahashi
T Ishikawa
Mutsumi Sano
Nobuteru Nariyama
Yasunori Senba
Kiyofumi Nitta
H Kimura
S Goto
Hideo Kitamura
Masato Hoshino
T. Bizen
Toru Ohata
Hirokatsu Yumoto
Tsunehiro Tanaka
Tomoya Uruga
Kentaro Uesugi
Tomohiro Koyama
Hiroshi Yamazaki
T. Seike
Yasuhiro Iwasawa
Yasumasa Takagi
H Ohno
K Kato
Kunikazu Takeshita
Hideki Aoyagi
T. Takeuchi
Tomohiro Matsushita
Yukito Furukawa
Source :: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 712:012142
Publication Year :: 2016
Publisher :: IOP Publishing, 2016.
Abstract: A tapered undulator beamline BL36XU was constructed at SPring-8 to conduct structural and electronic analysis of dynamic events on polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) cathode catalysts for the development of next-generation PEFCs. BL36XU provides various time and spatially resolved XAFS techniques in an energy range from 4.5 to 35 keV for investigating PEFCs under the operating conditions. In addition, we developed in-situ complementary measurement systems, such as in-situ time-resolved XAFS/XRD and ambient pressure HAXPES systems. This report describes the performance and present status of the BL36XU.