Materials Girl

Nice. Energy storage is a significant sticking point in the development of many alternative energies systems. Interesting that they’re using a solid membrane, I wonder what the rate of exhaustion is like?

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Materials Make Durable Fuel Cell Membrane

Liang Wang, a post-doctoral researcher in the Univ. of Delaware’s Center for Fuel Cell Research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing new materials and structures that can improve the quality of fuel cell technology by increasing the durability of the fuel cell membrane. Like batteries, fuel cells are electrochemical energy conversion devices that produce electricity. By converting hydrogen and oxygen into water, they can be a valuable power source for vehicles, buildings and devices like laptops and cell phones. Wang’s research is aimed at developing new materials and structures for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which are considered the best type of fuel cell for vehicles, and are predicted to eventually replace gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines.

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