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 | Cranfield Univ, Dept of Materials & Medical Sciences | The Department of Materials and Medical Sciences has expertise in new membranes and membrane mlectrode assemblies, new methods of fabricating MEAs and fuel cell testing. The core activity of the Fuel Cell Group is the development of novel copolymer membranes and electrode systems for fuel cells.
| Dept of Materials & Medical Science | Yes |
| Imperial College Centre for Ion Conducting Membranes | A wide range of activities is covered, including polymer fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells, hydrogen generation, fuel processing, materials, electrocatalysts, polymer membranes, ceramic membranes, fuel cell economics, distributed energy generation, life cycle analysis, fuel cell testing, and fuel cell modelling and validation.
| Research Interests | Yes |
| Imperial College London, Dept of Materials | The dept researches oxygen diffusion and exchange in SOFC materials, electrical and microstructural characterisation, mechanical properties, computer simulation, fuel cell testing and partial oxidation studies, oxygen ion and proton conducting systems, and structural aspects of new materials development.
| Department of Materials | Yes |
| Keele Univ, Centre for Clean Technology | The Centre has expertise in fuel processing and internal reforming in SOFCs, development of new anodes for internally reforming SOFCs, Carbon deposition (coking) on active components in fuel cells, Sulphur tolerance of active materials in SOFCs, pollutant tolerances, SOFCs running on natural gas, propane/butane, higher hydrocarbons (fuel diversity), SOFCs running on biogas and biomass, fuel cell testing and evaluation, intermediate temperature SOFCs, & partial oxidation and direct hydrocarbon oxidation in SOFCs.
| Chemistry Dept | Yes |
| Loughborough Univ, Dept Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering | The dept maintains close links with industry and research establishments through its research and consultancy activities, and contains a custom-built Fuel Cell and Electric Vehicle Laboratory, with 4 wall-mounted stations for the supply of hydrogen, oxygen, compressed air and other gases. This facility accommodates the testing of both fuel cell stacks and fuel cell sub-systems.
| Dept Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering | Yes |
| Loughborough Univ, Institute of Polymer Technology & Materials | IPTME has two activities in the solid oxide fuel cell area; the Polymer Research Group focuses on the production of thin ceramic membranes from ceramic-filled polymer compounds, and the Ceramics Research Group is developing nanoinks for the screen printing of nanostructured patterns on zirconia substrates.
| Report on thin ceramic membranes. | Yes |
| Qinetiq Ltd Electrochemical Power | QinetiQ has an interest in most areas of fuel cell research. It has programmes developing materials for fuel cells (PEMs, DMFCs & SOFCs), novel stack designs, systems integration, diesel processing and small-scale hydrogen generators. QinetiQ also has programmes to assess commercial fuel cells for end users such as the UK military.
| Qinetiq Energy | Yes |
| Umist, Dept of Chemical Engineering | The dept has activities and expertise in oxidation catalysis and electrocatalysis in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), hydrogen storage and liquid organic hydrides as hydrogen storage media, integration of hydrogen storage systems with SOFC systems, and alternative SOFC electrolyte materials and fabrication processes.
| Dept of Chemical Eng. | Yes |
| Univ of Bath, Dept Engineering & Applied Science | The dept has expertise in ceramic components of the fuel cell, and the development of materials for electrolytes and electrodes.
| Materials Research Centre | Yes |
| Univ of Birmingham, Dept of Chemical Engineering | The dept of Chemical Engineering has activities in Fuel Cell Systems, fuels and fuel processing, and SOFCs.
| Dept of Chemical Engineering | Yes |
| Univ of Birmingham, Dept of Metallurgy & Materials | The dept is active in the synthesis of novel materials for solid-state storage of hydrogen, the advanced membrane materials for hydrogen purification, and the evaluation of the interaction of hydrogen with a range of infrastructure materials required in the hydrogen supply chain (from generation to end-use).
| Applied Alloy Chemistry Group | Yes |
| Univ of Dundee, Div Physical & Inorganic Chemistry | The dept has research interests in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; Solid State Electrochemistry; ceramic oxygen ion, proton and electronic conductors; structure and composition of materials for SOFCs down to the atomic scale; catalytic electrodes; Impedance Spectroscopy; and High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM).
| Div Physical & Inorganic Chemistry | Yes |
| Univ of Leeds School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering | Extensive fuel cell test units, operating at 900-1200K with an output of up to 1 kW equipped with reactant humidification control for hydrogen or simulated reformatted mixtures. Experimental research on fuel cell performance and internal reforming at the anode and analysis of exhaust gas can be performed on the test rigs. Over 20 years research on hydrogen and biogas production, storage, transportation and combustion. Our expertise in biomass includes all areas of the thermal conversion, co-combustion and pre/post combustion/gasification of biomass.
| School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering | Yes |
| Univ of Newcastle, Sch Chem Eng & Advanced Materials | Research is focussed upon the development of proton-conducting membrane fuel cells using gaseous and liquid fuels including hydrogen, methanol, ethanol and reformate gas, with application in transportation and propulsion, and in miniaturised, portable and static power. Present research of new fuel cell technologies involves novel electrode and catalyst fabrication techniques and structures, geometries and stack configurations.
| Sch Chemical Eng & Advanced Materials | Yes |
| Univ of Nottingham, H Storage Group | Group expertise centres around synthetic techniques covering organic, inorganic, coordination, covalent and ionic solid compounds. Characterisation capabilities include single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction (ex- and in-situ), sorption and thermal analysis techniques (TG-DTA, DSC, IGA, BET etc), vibrational and resonance spectroscopy (IR, Raman, NMR, EPR), XPS and ToF SIMS, magnetometry (SQUID, MCD) and electron microscopy (SEM, TEM, EPMA, EDX, WDS, SAED etc).
| Sch of Chemistry Research | Yes |
| Univ of Nottingham, School Mech, Materials & Manufacturing Eng | The synthesis, modification and performance testing of nanomaterials for hydrogen storage. Systems of interest include catalysed light metal hydrides, nanostructured carbons and nanocomposites.
| School of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Eng | Yes |
| Univ of Reading, School of Chemistry | Research activities include polymer chemistry, synthesis of new ionomers, fabrication of such materials into proton transport membranes and (in collaboration with industry) membrane-electrode assemblies for air-hydrogen fuel cells, molecular simulation and diffraction-modelling of aromatic polymer structures, and hydrogen storage.
| School of Chemistry, Research Activities | Yes |
| Univ of Sheffield, Dept Engineering Materials | Current interest is in oxide ion solid electrolytes including Rare-earth Apatites, cubic and mixed hexagonal/cubic close-packed Perovskites and Bismuth-based fluorites. The group aims to optimise the properties of known electroceramics via control of the composition, defect chemistry and ceramic microstructure and to discover new materials via explorative phase diagram studies and chemical doping studies, defect chemistry, crystallography (X-ray, Neutron and Electron Diffraction), analytical electron microscopy (eg SEM/TEM with EDX, EPMA, EELS and PEELS) and electrical characterisation by Impedance Spectroscopy.
| Dept Engineering Materials | Yes |
| Univ of Southampton, Comb Centre of Excellence | Research interests are Model Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrocatalysis, High Throughput Thin Film Materials Synthesis and Screening, PEM Fuel Cell (hydrogen, reformate and direct methanol), and Hydrogen Storage Materials.
| Surface Science & Heterogeneous Catalysis Research Gp | Yes |
| Univ of St Andrews, School of Chemistry | The school's interest is in high temperature fuel cells, primarily solid oxide fuel cells, including basic material studies for fuel cell electrolyte and electrode materials, new fuel concepts, electrodes with better redox tolerance and higher hydrocarbon systems. We focus on the stability, durability and efficiency of ceramic fuel cells and in proton conducting oxides, intermediate temperature and alternative fuel cells, fuel production for high temperature fuel cells, and other chemical fuels such as ammonia.
| School of Chemistry Research | Yes |
| Univ of Surrey, Chemistry Division | Research activities are focussed on combined experimental and computer modelling of materials for use in solid oxide fuel cells, synthesis and characterisation of new electrolyte (oxide ion and proton conducting) and electrode materials, and structural (X-ray and neutron diffraction) and computer modelling studies.
| UniS Materials Institute | Yes |
| Univ of Warwick, Process Technology Gp | The group researches the development of new materials for fuel cell applications, including electrolyte materials, and the preparation and manipulation of nano-crystalline oxides, novel compositions for electrode components with coating technology for component manufacture, the development of modular, small-scale gas processing systems for hydrogen, and biomass conversion and integration with fuel cells.
| Technology Research | Yes |