Sentences with phrase «as fuel cell applications»

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Some of the other projects involve the development of proton exchange membrane for fuel cell application, a gyroscope based on micro-electromechanical technology and research on innovative engineering materials to fabricate ceramic membranes that can partially oxidize methane to syngas used as feedstock in commercial methanol production.

Next steps include expanding the use of the technology to different applications, such as solar and fuel cells; and using the battery to power different kinds of electronic devices.

In industry and commerce, applications range from food and fertilizer manufacture to crude oil cracking to utilization as an energy source in fuel cells.

Cost - effective applications for fuel cells have been identified for material handling equipment, as well as primary and backup power for data centers and telecommunication systems, he said.

LIG can be written into target materials in patterns and used as a supercapacitor, an electrocatalyst for fuel cells, radio - frequency identification (RFID) antennas and biological sensors, among other potential applications.

Strontium cobaltites are just one example of a class of materials known as transition metal oxides, which is considered promising for a variety of applications including electrodes in fuel cells, membranes that allow oxygen to pass through for gas separation, and electronic devices such as memristors — a form of nonvolatile, ultrafast, and energy - efficient memory device.

These results provide an important step towards possible future applications as a luminescent material, such as for lighting and displays, as well as light absorbers in solar cells and photocatalysts for producing solar fuel.

«These composites, which have less than 1 percent metal, respond as «super catalysts» for fuel - cell applications.

Those «very best» cells are close to becoming cost - competitive with fossil fuels such as coal in some applications but are themselves expensive and impractical for consumer electronics — hence Kyocera's interest in the film.

The nanoplatelets feature enough edge to make them suitable as catalysts for applications like fuel cells.

Understanding these effects quantitatively is important in order to develop this promising family of materials for potential applications including new types of low - energy computer memory and processing devices, electrically based refrigeration, and electro - catalytic energy - conversion devices such as fuel cells.

She has extensive research experience in the development and application of novel electron microscopy techniques for energy materials, such as lithium ion battery materials and fuel cell catalysts.

New composite material that traps oxygen selectively could be useful for energy applications such as fuel cells

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Researchers at Jilin University in China have developed a new class of self - assembled crystalline porous organic salts (CPOSs) featuring high proton conductivity for applications such as proton - exchange membranes for fuel cells.

Honda's next - generation fuel cell - electric vehicle will feature a fuel cell powertrain packaged completely in the engine room of the vehicle, allowing for efficiencies in cabin space as well as flexibility in the potential application of FC technology to multiple vehicle types in the future.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

With FIDO operational, Guy worked on a number of different projects, including research on the efficiency of fuel cells, research on German aviation fuel as inferred from the spectrographic analysis of aircraft exhaust, not to mention the design and testing of fuel baffles, experimental forest - clearing devices, and fuel propellant systems (including flamethrowers — an application the pacifically - minded Guy must have disliked.)

As weight and size do not pose serious limitations for stationary fuel cell applications, there is good reason to be optimistic that the potential for stationary fuel cells will be realized long before mobile commercial applications become widespread.