Special Issue
  • Research Trends on Key Components of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC): A Review

  • Seung-Cheol Shin*# , Myungjin Hong*# , Eun Ju Jeong*, Seong Jun Kim*, Seung Woo Choi*, Hyun Tak Kim*, Tak Heo*, Min Jeong Kim*, Young Kyu Kim*, Sang Eui Lee*†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  • Sang Eui Lee

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea

  • E-mail: selee@inha.ac.kr