Highly Active, Durable, and Ultra-low PGM NSTF Thin Film ORR Catalysts and Supports Award Number: DE-FOA-0007270 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Fuel Cell Technologies Office Date: 12/03/2015 Location(s): MN Office(s): Golden Field Office
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December 3, 2015
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Highly Active, Durable, and Ultra-low PGM NSTF Thin Film ORR Catalysts and Supports
Award Number: DE-FOA-0007270
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Fuel Cell Technologies Office
Date: 12/03/2015
Location(s): MN
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to the 3M Company to engineer new electrocatalysts for use in proton exchange membrane (PEM) hydrogen fuel cell cathode electrodes and develop a new class of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts with performance, durability, and costs suitable for automotive, stationary, and other relevant fuel cell applications that have better performance over the current state of the art.
The proposed project activities would include new electrocatalyst generation and characterization, electrocatalyst modeling, development of electrocatalyst fabrication and characterization methods, and project management conducted indoors at existing laboratories and research facilities. 3M would partner with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and Purdue University in Lafayette, IN to accomplish project objectives. All research, development and testing activities would take place in existing facilities designed for this type of research; therefore, no new construction, modifications or new permits, additional licenses and/or authorizations would be necessary.