Award Number: DE-EE0008076CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.15Fuel Cells Technologies OfficeLocation(s): PAOffice(s): Golden Field Office
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July 26, 2017
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Advanced PGM-free Cathode Engineering for High Power Density and Durability
Award Number: DE-EE0008076
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.15
Fuel Cells Technologies Office
Location(s): PA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Carnegie Mellon University to design and synthesize platinum group metal-free catalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, fabricate electrodes from those catalysts, and the assemble fuel cells from those materials.
Activities would include material characterization, analysis of the catalysts and electrodes, and testing of their electrochemical performance. All testing would be done in the laboratory environment. Electrode fabrication and testing would occur primarily at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), as well as at the Giner Inc. test facility (Newton, MA). The catalyst synthesis and evaluation would occur primarily at the University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), as well as at the Giner test facility. Polymer electrolytes for the electrode fabrication would be provided by 3M (St. Paul, MN).