213th ECS Meeting - Phoenix, AZ

May 18 - May 22, 2008

PROGRAM INFORMATION
 

B4 - Characterization of Porous Materials

Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering/Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry
 

Monday, May 19, 2008

Room 105C, 100 Level, Phoenix Convention Center

Characterization

Co-Chair(s): L. Balsu and M. Budinski
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00   267   Porosity Measurement in PEM Fuel Cell Electrodes M. K. Budinski (General Motors)
14:30   268   Characterization of Porous Films and Membranes by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) P. Sun, F. Laforge and M. V. Mirkin (Queens College - CUNY)
15:00   269   Ellipsometric Porosimetry : Fast and Non Destructive Characterization for a Range of Porous Thin Films; Highlights on Energy and Microelectronic Applications. C. Walsh (SOPRA SA), A. Bondaz (SOPRA Inc), Y. Turcant and A. Bourgeois (SOPRA SA)
15:20 Intermission (20 Minutes)
15:40   270   Electronic Structure of Carbon Alloy Cathode Catalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells S. Niwa, K. Horiba, Y. Harada, H. Kumigashira, M. Oshima (The University of Tokyo), T. Ikeda (JAEA), K. Terakura (JAIST) and J. Ozaki (Gunma University)
16:00   271   Characterization of Porous and Non-porous Carbon Based Materials Using Powder Microelectrode S. Park and K. Lian (University of Toronto)
16:20   272   Grain Size Effect on the Electrochemical Performance of Li Ion Rechargeable Batteries in Nanocrystalline LiMn2O4 Cathode Materials R. Singhal and R. Katiyar (University of Puerto Rico)
16:40   273   Fabrication of Conducting Polymer Hybrid Materials for Electrochemical Supercapacitors G. M. Suppes, B. Deore and M. Freund (University of Manitoba)
 

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Room 105C, 100 Level, Phoenix Convention Center

Characterization 2

Co-Chair(s): G. Brisard and V. Sethuraman
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
09:00   274   Nondestructive Reconstruction and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anodes using X-ray Computed Tomography at sub-50 nm Resolution J. R. Izzo Jr., A. Joshi, K. Grew, W. Chiu (University of Connecticut), A. Tkachuk, S. Wang and W. Yun (Xradia Inc.)
09:30 Intermission (20 Minutes)
09:50   275   In Situ Observation of Liquid Water Evolution and Transport in PEM Fuel Cells by Synchrotron Radiography C. Hartnig (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg), I. Manke (Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin), R. Kuhn (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg), N. Kardjilov, J. Banhart (Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin) and W. Lehnert (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg)
10:20   276   Mixed Ni-Li-M Oxides as Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction M. Villa, C. Milanese, P. Salvi, E. Verardi (Universita' di Bergamo), A. Marini (Unversita' di Pavia) and G. Zangari (University of Virginia)
10:40   277   Macroporous Lithium Manganese Oxide Monoliths as Cathodes for Lithium Batteries D. Tonti (CSIC), M. Torralvo, E. Enciso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), I. Sobrados and J. Sanz (CSIC)
11:00   278   Development of Pt/Mesoporous Carbon Electrocatalysts for PEM Fuel Cells F. Feng, D. Banham and V. Birss (University of Calgary)
11:20   279   Hydrophilic Clustering and Swelling in Nafion and Modified Nafion Films V. Svoboda (University of Hawaii), M. Wormington (Bede Scientific Inc.), A. Bourgeois (SOPRA-SA), B. Liaw (University of Hawaii), S. Minteer (Saint Louis University) and P. Atanassov (University of New Mexico)
11:40   280   Synthesis and Electrochemical Behavior of TiO2-B Porous Nano-Structures. J. Prochazka, L. Kavan, M. Zukalova and O. Frank (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i.)
 

Modelling

Co-Chair(s): A. Lasia and G. Sikha
TimeAbs#Title and Authors
14:00   281   A Particle-Resolved SOFC Cermet Anode Model with Detailed Chemistry V. L. Thomas, D. Goodwin and J. Hanna (California Institute of Technology)
14:30   282   Micro-Structural Heterogeneous Model of SOFC Anodes J. Golbert, C. Adjiman and N. Brandon (Imperial College London)
15:00   283   Simulation of Adsorption and Diffusion of Gases in Nanoporous Catalyst Layers for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells K. Malek (NRC Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation), T. Soboleva (Simon Fraser University), T. Navessin (NRC-IFCI), S. Holdcroft, M. Eikerling (Simon Fraser University / NRC-IFCI) and Z. Liu (NRC-IFCI)
15:20 Intermission (20 Minutes)
15:40   284   Stochastic 3D-Modeling of the GDL Structure in PEM Fuel Cells Based on Thin Section Detection R. Thiedmann (Ulm University), F. Fleischer (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG), C. Hartnig, W. Lehnert (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg) and V. Schmidt (Ulm University)
16:00   285   The Porous Rotating Disk Electrode: Experiments and Analytic Models B. Nam, R. Bonnecaze (The University of Texas at Austin), N. Mano (Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP)) and A. Heller (The University of Texas at Austin)
16:20   286   Modeling of Indentation Studies of Reduced Porous Ni-8YSZ Anode and Electrolyte Structures J. Zhang, T. Nithyanantham, S. Thangavel, S. Biswas and S. Bandopadhyay (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
 

Hall 2, Lower Level, Phoenix Convention Center

Poster Session

TimeAbs#Title and Authors
o   287   Polymer-Filled Porous Silica Composite Electrolytes for High-Temperature PEMFCs X. Zhang (North Carolina State University)
o   288   The Voltammetry and Impedance of Porous Electrodes Correlated by Fourier Transform M. Sedlarikova (Faculty of Electrical Egineering), P. Dvorak (Department of Electrotechnology, Brno University of Technology) and J. Vondrak (Academy of Sciences)