Nanoscopic roughness characterization of chitosan with buried graphene oxide for fuel cell application

¹ Faculty of Engineering, May University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
² National Institute of Chemistry, P.O. Box 660, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
³ Department of Physics, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, 11835, Egypt
⁴ University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
⁵ University of Maribor, Slovenia

Academic Editor: Nunzio Cennamo

Published: 05 December 2022 by MDPI in The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences session Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences

https://doi.org/10.3390/ASEC2022-13819

Abstract:

The combination of ecologically acceptable polysaccharide and graphene oxide (GO) nanoparticles was used (Chitosan)
producing the fuel cell membrane for alkaline straight ethanol (DAEFC).
Due to its great power efficiency and minimal influence on the environment, this kind of fuel cell has a lot of potential uses.
Recently, the performance of polymer-based DAEFC was significantly improved by the use of graphene. Since the roughness plays an important role in the charge transfer, Herein we present our study of the change in the roughness of GO blended Chitosan using different preparation methods and different concentrations of GO.

Keywords: AFM, GO, Chitosan, Fuell cell, membrane

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