A1-2. Membrane and Cell Characterization

Tuesday, 7 October 2014: 14:00-17:00
Sunrise, 2nd Floor, Star Ballroom 5 (Moon Palace Resort)
Chairs:
Guido Bender and Walter Mérida
14:00
Invited: Confinement Effects on the Structure and Transport of Nafion Ultrathin Films
C. M. Stafford (National Institute of Standards and Technology), K. Page (Materials Science and Engineering Division, NIST), E. M. Davis (National Institute of Standards and Technology), S. Kim (Materials Science and Engineering Division, NIST), J. Dura (Center for Neutron Research, NIST), K. Yager (Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory), A. Kusoglu (Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and C. L. Soles (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
15:00
Study of the Constrained Expansion of Nafion within the Hardware of a PEMFC
M. A. Folgado, P. Ferreira-Aparicio, and A. M. Chaparro (CIEMAT)
15:20
The Effect of Cathode Pressure Perturbations on the Voltage Stability of a Simulated Fuel Cell Stack
M. Burkholder (Carnegie Mellon University) and S. Litster (Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University)
15:40
Break
16:00
Quality Control Diagnostics for Mass Produced Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Electrodes
G. Bender and M. Ulsh (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
16:20
Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Characterization and Diagnostics
S. Dhanushkodi, M. Schwager, and W. Mérida (Clean Energy Research Centre, University of British Columbia)
16:40
Effect of Oxygen Concentration on Current Density Distribution in the Land-Channel Direction
U. N. Shrivastava and K. Tajiri (Michigan Technological University)