Highly-Accessible Catalysts for Durable High-Power Performance Award Number: DE-EE0007271 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Fuel Cell Technologies Office Date: 12/22/15 Location(s): MI Office(s): Golden Field Office
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December 22, 2015
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Highly-Accessible Catalysts for Durable High-Power Performance
Award Number: DE-EE0007271
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Fuel Cell Technologies Office
Date: 12/22/2015
Location(s): MI
Office(s): Golden Field Office
General Motors LLC (GM) would utilize DOE and cost share funding to develop novel platinum based electrocatalysts for use in proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cell power plants with an aim to achieve a fuel cell catalyst with transport properties that meet or exceed the DOE 2020 Fuel Cell Technologies Office targets for performance, durability, and cost for automotive and stationary applications. The catalysts would be designed and optimized in collaboration with the project partners 3M Company (3M), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Drexel University (Drexel), and Cornell University (Cornell). The optimized catalysts would be applied to fuel cell membranes and tested in membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for performance and degradation data. Project partners would help with both fabrication of the catalysts, membranes, and testing of the fuel cells. Modeling and laboratory work would be performed in laboratories at GM, 3M, CMU, Drexel, and Cornell.