Non-Platinum Electrocatalysts Workshop
The U.S. Department of Energy sponsored the Non-Platinum Electrocatalysts Workshop in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 21-22, 2003. Attendees included researchers, government officials, and industry members. The purpose of the workshop was to review the current status of electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells, review the impact of platinum cost and availability on PEM fuel cell commercialization, identify potential non-platinum electrocatalysts, develop a strategy to explore the potential development of new, non-platinum electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cell applications. The presentations from the Non-Platinum Electrocatalysts Workshop are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.
Overview (PDF 349 KB), Nancy Garland, DOE Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies Program
Ni-Based Molecular Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Oxidation (PDF 156 KB), Dan DuBois National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Novel platinum/carbon catalysts with cluster size control for hydrogen fuel cells (PDF 662 KB), Eric N. Coker and Ion C. Abraham, Sandia National Laboratories
Energy Conversion Devices (PDF 170 KB), Peter Faguy, Ovonic
Furnace Black Characterization (PDF 731 MB), Michel Gerspacher, Sid Richardson Carbon Co.
Ordered Intermetallics as Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cell Applications (PDF 635 KB), Héctor D. Abruña and Francis J. DiSalvo, Cornell University
Transition Metal Sulfide Electrocatalysts for PEM Fuel Cells (PDF 733 KB), Allan J. Jacobson et al., University of Houston
Oxygen reduction in PEM fuel cell conditions: Heat-treated macrocycles and beyond (PDF 803 KB), J. P. Dodelet, INRS-Énergie et Matériaux
The Combinatorial Platform Goal: Application of High Throughput Materials Discovery to Find Compositions of Matter that Maximizes Specific Material Properties (PDF 131 KB), Paul L. Richter, Fuel Cell Acquisition Group, Inc.
Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Hydrogen by Hydrogenase (PDF 196 KB), John Petrovic
Why Is Pt So Unique?—A Chemical Physics Approach (PDF 890 KB), Philip N. Ross, Jr., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Combinatorial Discovery of Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts (PDF 523 KB), Eugene S. Smotkin University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras
What performance would non-Pt cathode catalysts need to achieve to be practical for transportation? Or The Importance of A/cm3 (PDF 1.19 MB), Frederick T. Wagner et al., General Motors
The Reactivity Limit for Methanol Oxidation on Platinum/Ruthenium Catalysts (PDF 869 KB), A. Wieckowski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign