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Fuel Cell

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Studies conducted in this lab includes: (1) The study of the mechanisms of water transfer in PEM fuel cells by experimentally determining water transfer due to various mechanisms. (2) Modeling the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells and direct methanol fuel cells. (3) Develop multi-dimensional computational fluid dynamics models for various types of fuel cells. (4) Modeling and experimentally study of two-phase flow phenomena in fuel cells. (5) Flow field design optimization for hydrogen PEM fuel cells and direct methanol fuel cells. (6) Novel techniques in measurement of local current densities in PEM fuel cells and DMFCs.

Solar Simulation System

Newport Sol1A capable of simulating sunlight with output up to 100mW/cm²

Optical Microscope

ImagePlanet optical microscope with 3.3 million pixel microscope camera

Hot Press

Making membrane-electrode-assembly (MEA) for fuel cells and flow batteries

Fuel Cell Test System

Hydrogenics G60 Automatic fuel cell test system

Electro-Chemical System

(a) VersaSTAT3 for conducting electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), linear voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry (CV) up to 2A and 10V.

(b) Solartron Analytical CellTest Systems of 1470E and 1400: capable of due channel EIS and 8-channel linear voltammetry

AFM

Bruker Multimode 8 Atomic Force Microscope capable of 3D nano-scale surface topography measurements