High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

Preface.- Introduction.- Modifications of sulfonic acid-based membranes.- Acid-base chemistry and proton conductivity.- Applications of acid-base blend concepts to intermediate temperature membranes.- Pyridine Containing Aromatic Polyether Membranes.- Techniques for PBI membrane characterization.- Synthesis of Polybenzimidazoles.- Phosphoric acid and its interactions with polybenzimidazole type polymers.- Polybenzimidazole membranes by post acid doping.- PBI membranes via the PPA process.- Polybenzimidazoles with enhanced basicity: a chemical approach for durable membranes.- Polybenzimidazole/porous poly(tetrafluoro ethylene) composite membranes.- PBI-based composite membranes.- Catalysts and Catalyst-Layers in HT-PEFCs.- Catalyst support material and electrode fabrication.- Design and Optimization of HT-PEMFC-MEAs.- Characterization of HT-PEM Membrane-Electrode-Assemblies.- Approaches for the modeling of PBI/H3PO4 based HT-PEM fuel cells.- Bipolar plates and gaskets: Different materials and processing methods.- Stack concepts for high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells.- High Temperature PEM Fuel Cell Systems, Control and Diagnostics.- Durability Issues and Status of PBI Based Fuel Cells.- High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Systems for Aircraft Applications.- Electrochemical Hydrogen Pumping.

Qingfeng Li is a professor at Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark. His research areas include proton conducting electrolytes, electrocatalysts and the related technologies particularly fuel cells and electrolysers. He received his Ph.D. in electrochemistry from Northeastern University, China, in 1990 and was awarded Doctor Degree of Technices at DTU in 2006. As a postdoc he started in the middle of 1990´s the research on high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells at DTU. He has participated/coordinated more than 20 EU and Nordic research projects within the fuel cell area and is currently the leader of 4M Centre devoted to fundamental research on mechanisms, materials, manufacturing and management of high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, funded by the Danish Council for Strategic Research. He is an active member of, among other, the Electrochemical Society and the International Society of Electrochemistry (and currently the region representative of Denmark 2012-now). Prof. Li has been involved in teaching at all DTU levels including a lecturing and an experimental course on Hydrogen Energy and Fuel cells.David Aili obtained his MSc degree in Organic Chemistry in 2007 from the Institute of Technology at Linköping University after a diploma project at the Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University. He subsequently moved to Technical University of Denmark to pursue a PhD in the field of proton conducting membranes for electrochemical energy conversion technologies under the supervision of Professor Niels Bjerrum at the Department of Chemistry. After obtaining his PhD degree in 2011 and after a shorter period as a development engineer in the in the phenolic resin business, he joined the newly formed Department of Energy Conversion and Storage at Technical University of Denmark in 2012 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His current research covers fundamental and application-oriented aspects of

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