The class of porous conducting composites and subclass of gas-diffusion layers (GDL) were analyzed as systems. The scheme for a systemic approach to designing GDL is presented. The triunity of the creative process is noted, including the methodical design of articles made of composites. The possibility of using systemic design methods for creating porous conducting composites to fabricate GDL for fuel cells. Ways of resolving the contradictory requirements for functioning of GDL are demonstrated. Examples of basic GDL designs are reported. Mathematical substantiation of the practical possibility of systemic design and fabrication of a number of basic GDL designs are presented. A classification of GDL based on consideration of the reciprocal spatial position of the direction of physical flows in GDL and the direction of formation of the structure of the GDL was developed.
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Translated from Khimicheskie Volokna, No. 5, pp. 38-43, September-October, 2009.
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Lysenko, V.A. Principles for designing conducting composites for fuel cells. Fibre Chem 41, 321–327 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10692-010-9197-8
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