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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.
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Dr. Autrey's current research interests are focused on materials and approaches to hydrogen storage for small power and on - board fuel cell applications.
He is specifically interested in capturing electrons more efficiently, which will help development of other useful microbial fuel cell applications.
The country has also faced a series of rolling electricity load - shedding incidents and there is greater caution about the use of nuclear power owing to the Fukushima accident in Japan, spurring interest in both large - scale fuel cell applications and residential fuel cell micro-CHP.
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.
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Barboiu also obtained two patents for the application of his work to the production of fuel cells and not long ago filed two more patent applications for the separation and sequestration of carbon dioxide.
The design and formation of an atomic - scale bridge between different materials will lead to new and improved physical properties, opening the path to new information technology and energy science applications amongst a myriad of science and engineering possibilities — for example, atoms could move faster at the interface between the materials, enabling better batteries and fuel cells.
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.
Carbon capture is an obvious extended use for fuel cells, said Tony Leo, vice president of application engineering and advanced technology development at FuelCell Energy.
Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and LEDs.
Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Offfuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies OffFuel Cell Technologies Office.
Sure, that hydrogen can support fuel cell vehicles, but hydrogen has many other applications.»
If you do hydrogen evolution, producing hydrogen from water, that's water electrolysis, which produces clean hydrogen for fuel cells and other applications.»
Fuel cells play a major role in creating a clean energy future, with a broad set of applications ranging from powering buildings to electrifying transportation.
In industry and commerce, applications range from food and fertilizer manufacture to crude oil cracking to utilization as an energy source in fuel cells.
The majority of modern fuel cells, specifically those used for automotive applications, are proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which functions by exchanging protons across an acidic polymer membrane to produce electricity and heat.
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.
It could offer a convenient and portable source of hydrogen for fuel cells and other applications, potentially transforming the energy market and providing an alternative to batteries and liquid fuels.
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.
In addition to memory devices, the material could ultimately find applications in fuel cells and electrodes for lithium ion batteries, Lu says.
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.
Metal - air batteries, fuel cells and other energy storage and conversion applications rely on chemical reactions to produce current.
Their approach could lead to improvements in longevity for alloys used in fossil fuel plants, bridges, pipelines, fuel cells, and many other applications.
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.
Rice University chemists who developed a unique form of graphene have found a way to embed metallic nanoparticles that turn the material into a useful catalyst for fuel cells and other applications.
«Coating bacteria with electron - conducting polymer for microbial fuel - cells: Coating of individual bacterial cells with an electron - conducting polymer provides for a high - performance anode for microbial fuel - cell applications.»
Simulations by Rice University scientists show how carbon nanomaterials may be optimized to replace expensive platinum in cathodes for electricity - generating fuel cells for transportation and other applications.
With the discovery, the material that the researchers call «metal oxide - laser induced graphene» (MO - LIG) becomes a new candidate to replace expensive metals like platinum in catalytic fuel - cell applications in which oxygen and hydrogen are converted to water and electricity.
«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.
«This work paves the way for not only paper - based electronics with graphene circuits,» the researchers wrote in their paper, «it enables the creation of low - cost and disposable graphene - based electrochemical electrodes for myriad applications including sensors, biosensors, fuel cells and (medical) devices.»
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.
«Gas storage materials can be used in a range of applications, including gas sensors and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,» says Professor Baek.
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.
«We believe these materials have potential in water filters, sensors, drug delivery and especially fuel cells or other energy applications.»
New composite material that traps oxygen selectively could be useful for energy applications such as fuel cells
One of those users is Dane Morgan, a professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who develops new materials for a wide range of applications, including highly active catalysts for fuel cells, stable low - work function electron emitter cathodes for high - powered microwave devices, and efficient, inexpensive, and environmentally safe solar materials.
The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is working with FuelCell Energy, Inc., an integrated stationary fuel cell manufacturer, to develop a durable, low - cost, and high - performance electrochemical cell to convert natural gas and other methane - rich gas into methanol, a major chemical commodity with worldwide applications in... Read more →
Abstract: Ion conducting membranes are of interest for various energy applications including fuel cells and artificial photosynthesis systems.
Ultimately, they could be used for water filtration, molecular sensing, medical diagnosis, drug delivery and fuel cells — to name just a few potential applications.
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.
I expect that the next decade and beyond will give us numerous breakthroughs in materials for a wide variety of applications, particularly those important for solar energy harvesting, fuel cells, batteries, other electronics and beyond (perhaps for applications we haven't even thought of yet).
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.
These arrays could have applications in fuel cells, and efficient energy sources.
The N - FCH Systems Laboratory focuses on the integration of fuel cells (mobile applications) and water electrolysers (stationary applications) into power systems.
Aizenberg's team is currently focusing on developing next - generation catalysts for a number of applications — from clean air technologies and catalytic converters to advanced electrodes for catalytic fuel cells — hoping to test their designs soon in real world systems.
The five year grant will support the development of Bretschger's BioElectrochemical Sanitation Technology (BEST), which uses microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to clean wastewater and improve sanitation and water accessibility in developing world applications.
«With both this performance and the atomic visualization of the reaction sites, we are closing the gap to replace platinum with a high - performance catalyst poised to be scaled up for potential application in fuel cells for automotive applications,» said Karren More, ORNL microscopy team lead.