Fuel Cells, Fuel Processing and CO2 Sequestration

• Principal Investigators: Soumendra Basu, Srikanth Gopalan, Xi Lin, Karl Ludwig, Uday Pal, Kevin Smith, and Zhang.

Power limitations, lifetime extension, deleterious environmental impact, fuel flexibility and cost are challenges facing portable and large‐scale energy conversion devices. These critical issues are being addressed at Boston University by developing new materials and optimizing processing methods.

This research combines materials processing, characterization and modeling of materials and structures, thereby creating new possibilities. The fundamental understanding gained from such electrochemical systems are also applicable to other clean energy technologies, such as primary and rechargeable batteries, biological, thermo‐chemical, photo‐electrochemical, and thermo‐electric processes for energy production.

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