211th ECS Meeting - Chicago, Illinois

May 06 - May 10, 2007

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

G2 - Design of Electrode Structures

Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering/Energy Technology
 

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Southwest Hall, Lower Level

Poster Session

Co-Chairs: D. T. Mah, E. S. De Castro, L. Lipp
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
o 897 The Visual Investigation of Anode Backing Layers of MEAs for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells J. Zhang, G. Yin and Q. Lai (Harbin Institute of Technology)
o 898 Effect of Fluoroalkylsilane Coating on the Preperties of Gas Diffusion Layer in PEMFCs G. Yoon, S. Park, E. Kim, S. Kim and Y. Park (Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
o 899 Electrochemical properties of LiMn2O4 cathodes by structural modifications M. Park and S. Joo (Seoul National University)
o 900 Electrodeposition of Cu2O Nanowires with Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) Templates C. Wu (Chung-Hsing University), T. Lin (Mid-South K-12 Regional Center of nanotechnology Human Resource development Program, Taiwan, ROC), F. Lu (Chung-Hsinh University) and W. Yu (Mid-South K-12 Regional Center of nanotechnology Human Resource development Program, Taiwan, ROC)
 

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Williford B, 3rd Floor

Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

Co-Chairs: D. T. Mah, E. S. De Castro, L. Lipp
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
09:00 901 DMFC Electrode Fabrication, Structure and Fuel Cell Performance L. Birry, R. Allen, C. Bock, R. McMillan and B. MacDougall (National Research Council Canada)
09:20 902 A Conductive Nb-Doped Titania Supported Electrocatalyst for use in DMFC's Synthesized at Low Temperature R. Fuentes, B. L. Garcia and J. Weidner (University of South Carolina)
 

Biofuel Cells

TimeAbs#Title and Authors
09:40 903 Design of Chitosan Gel Pore Structure: Towards Enzyme Catalyzed Electrodes M. J. Cooney, M. Windmeisser, B. Liaw (University of Hawaii) and S. Minteer (Saint Louis University)
10:00 904 Dye Mediator-Enzyme Anodes for Application in Biofuel Cells M. Muzikar (UC Davis), D. Scott (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and M. Toney (UC Davis)
10:20 Intermission (20 Minutes)
 

Fundamentals

TimeAbs#Title and Authors
10:40 905 Intrinsic Kinetic Equations for the HOR and ORR: the Thermodynamic Foundation for Designing the PEMFC Electrodes J. X. Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory), T. Springer, F. Uribe (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and R. Adzic (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
 

Structual Impact

TimeAbs#Title and Authors
11:00 906 Nanostructured Bi-functional Electrocatalysts for Degradation Mitigation in PEFCs P. Trogadas and V. Ramani (Illinois Institute of Technology)
11:20 907 Effect of Particle Size Distribution on Platinum Surface Area Loss in PEMFC Cathodes E. F. Holby (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Y. Shao-Horn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and D. Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:40 908 Surface Properties of Nanofibers Electrodes and Their Effect on ORR Kinetics in Fuel Cells T. D. Hall (University of Notre Dame), D. Firsich (Inorganic Specialist Inc.), D. Hill and A. Miller (University of Notre Dame)
 

Microfabrication

TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00 909 Employment of Microfabrication Technologies for Fabrication of Miniature Energy Conversion and Storage Devices D. A. Brevnov and P. Atanassov (University of New Mexico)
 

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:20 910 Dynamic First-Principles Molecular-Scale Model for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells V. H. Schmidt (Montana State University)
14:40 911 Micro-Structural Modeling of SOFC Electrodes J. Golbert, N. Brandon and C. Adjiman (Imperial College)
15:00 912 Anode Characterization and SOFC Performance using Ni-YSZ Anodes Formed by Ni Impregnation Methods A. Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) and V. Krishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
15:20 Intermission (20 Minutes)
 

Characterization

TimeAbs#Title and Authors
15:40 913 Novel Technique for Characterizing Porous Structure of Electrodes, Membranes and other Components of Electrochemical Systems in Real Environment. Method of Standard Porosimetry A. Sakars (Porotech Ltd.) and Y. Volfkovich (A.N.Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Elerctrochemistry of RAS)
 

Electrolysis

TimeAbs#Title and Authors
16:00 914 Carbon-supported Rhodium Sulfide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Electrolysis and Fuel Cells S. Mukerjee, L. Gancs (Northeastern University), A. Gulla and R. Allen (ETEK-BASF)
16:20 915 A Tantalum Oxide Electrode for Electrochemical Ozone Generation K. Kaneda, K. Kitsuka, Y. Nowatari, M. Ikematsu, M. Iseki (Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.), T. Higuchi, T. Hattori, T. Tsukamoto (Tokyo University of Science) and T. Yonesaki (Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.)
16:40 916 Production of Ni and Pt Architectures by the use of a Latex-Microsphere Template L. Tsagalas, D. Hill and A. Miller (University of Notre Dame)