“Advances in Materials for
Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Systems”
February 18-21,
2006
Sunday, February 18
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PLENARY LECTURE SESSION
I James E. McGrath, Discussion Leader |
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2:00
p.m. |
Opening
Remarks, Jim McGrath and Tom Zawodzinski |
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2:15
p.m. |
Nancy
Garland, U.S. Department of Energy DOE
View of Advanced Materials for PEMFC |
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3:00
p.m. |
Seizo
Miyata, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO),
Japan Fuel
Cell Projects in Japan and Their Highlights for PEMFCs |
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3:45
p.m. |
Ken
Reifsnider, University of Connecticut Foundations
for Durability of Ionomer Membranes and Membrane Electrode Assemblies |
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5:00
p.m. |
WELCOMING RECEPTION |
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6:00
p.m. |
DINNER |
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PLENARY LECTURE SESSION
II Steve Hamrock, 3M, Discussion Leader |
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7:30
p.m. |
Joseph
DeSimone, UNC Chapel Hill Curable,
100% Solids Liquid Precursors to Patterned PEMs |
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8:15
p.m. |
Deborah
Jones, University of Montpellier, France Proton
Exchange Membranes for High Temperature Fuel Cells |
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9:00
p.m. |
James
E. McGrath, Virginia Tech Aromatic
Ionomer Proton Exchange Membrane Systems |
Monday, February 19
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PLENARY LECTURE SESSION
III Jay Sayre, Battelle, Discussion Leader |
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8:30
a.m. |
Klaus-Dieter Kreuer, Max-Planck-Institut für
Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany Exploring
the Limits of Sulfonic Acid Based Proton Conducting Membranes |
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9:15
a.m. |
Silvia
Licoccia, University of Rome Strategies
to Increase the Operating Temperature of PEMFCs: From Nanocomposites to
Hybrid Electrolytes |
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9:45
a.m. |
David
Wesolowski, Oak Ridge National Labs Stability, Solubility and Surface Chemistry of
Inorganic Solid Phases Under PEMFC Operating Conditions |
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10:15
a.m. |
BREAK |
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10:30
a.m. |
Hossein
Ghassemi & Tom Zawodzinski, Case Western Reserve University Challenges in Developing High Temperature Proton
Exchange Membranes |
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11:00
a.m. |
W.S.
Winston Ho, Ohio State University Synthesis
and Characterization of Sulfonated Polyimides and Copolymers as Proton
Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells |
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11:30
a.m. |
Richard Pollard and Qunhui Guo, Plug Power Membrane-Material Interactions in Fuel Cell Systems |
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12:00
p.m. |
LUNCH |
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PLENARY LECTURE SESSION
IV Bhima Vijayendran, Battelle, Discussion Leader |
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2:00
p.m. |
Meilin
Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology Heterocycles-Based
Proton Exchange Membranes |
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2:30
p.m. |
Yu Seung Kim and Bryan Pivovar, Los Alamos National Labs Performance and Durability of Sulfonated Poly(Ayrlene
Ether) Membranes |
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3:00
p.m. |
Michel
Foure, Arkema Group Polyvinylidene Fluoride Based Membranes |
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3:30
p.m. |
BREAK |
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3:45
p.m. |
Régis Mercier, CNRS, France Ionic Membranes Based on Sulfonated Polybenzimidazoles |
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4:15
p.m. |
Tom
Zawodzinski, Case Western Reserve University Polymer
Electrolytes In Electrodes |
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4:45
p.m. |
Mike
T. Hicks, Fuel Cell Components Program, 3M Center 3Ms
MEA Lifetime Modeling. |
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6:00
p.m. |
DINNER |
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7:30
p.m. |
POSTER
SESSION I – Submit poster abstracts to Lesia Linkous, ACS Division of
Polymer Chemistry by January 8, 2007 (lesiar@vt.edu) |
Tuesday, February 20
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PLENARY LECTURE SESSION
V Bryan Pivovar, LANL, Discussion
Leader |
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8:30
a.m. |
Giulio Alberti, University of Perugia, Italy Water-Uptake
of Pure and Composite-Nafion Membranes and Relations with Temperature, Relative Humidity,
Conformation Memory, Elastic Modulus and Instability Maps of Proton
Conductivity |
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9:15
a.m. |
Ken
Wynne, Virginia Commonwealth University Thermal
Stability in Air of Pt/C Catalysts and PEM Catalyst Layers |
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10:00
a.m. |
BREAK |
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10:15
a.m. |
Sung Chul Kim, KAIST, Korea Polymer Blend Membranes for the Direct Methanol Fuel
Cell |
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10:45
a.m. |
Kenneth
Wagener, University of Florida A
Study of Morphological Precision in Free Acid & Ionomer Polymers |
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11:15
a.m. |
Brian
Benicewicz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Advances
in PBI Membrane Materials |
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12:00
p.m. |
LUNCH |
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PLENARY LECTURE SESSION
VI Tom Zawodzinski, CWRU, Discussion Leader |
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2:00
p.m. |
Yossef
A. (Joe) Elabd, Drexel University Methanol Crossover: New Insights and Experimental
Techniques |
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2:30
p.m. |
Rod Borup, Los Alamos National Labs PEM
Fuel Cell Durability Issues for Transportation |
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3:00
p.m. |
BREAK |
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3:15
p.m. |
Don
Baird, Virginia Tech Polymer
Composite Bipolar Plates |
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3:45
p.m. |
Thomas
Willis, Precision Energy and Technology LLC Commercial
Aspects of PEM Fuel Cells |
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4:15
p.m. |
Robert
Moore, University of Southern Mississippi Probing the Glass Transition and Chain Dynamics in
Perfluorosulfonate Ionomer Membranes |
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6:00
p.m. |
DINNER |
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7:30
p.m. |
POSTER
SESSION I – Submit poster abstracts to Lesia Linkous, ACS Division of
Polymer Chemistry by January 8, 2007 (lesiar@vt.edu) |
Wednesday, February 21
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PLENARY LECTURE SESSION
VII Don Baird, Virginia Tech, Discussion Leader |
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8:30
a.m. |
Bernd Bauer, FuMA-Tech GmbH New Membrane Systems |
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9:15
a.m. |
M.
Pinéri, O. Diat, G. Gebel, CEA Grenoble, France Experimental
µ X Ray Diffraction Evidence of Membrane Water Desorption and Crystallization
Inside Active Layers During Below O°C Cooling of MEA |
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9:45
a.m. |
BREAK |
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10:00
a.m. |
Jim Fenton, Florida Solar Energy Center, and
Dept. of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of
Central Florida
Durability and Degradation of Nafion and Nafion
Composite Membranes in Working PEM Fuel Cells |
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10:30
a.m. |
Emil
Roduner, Stuttgart University, Germany "Ex-situ and in-situ
Studies of Fuel Cell Membrane Degradation Using ESR Spectroscopy" |
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11:00
a.m. |
Andy
Herring, Colorado School of Mines Fundamental
Studies of Composite Inorganic/PFSA Membranes for Fuel Cell operation |
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11:30
a.m. |
Ken
Mauritz, University of Southern Mississippi Dielectric
Spectroscopy as a Probe of Molecular Motions in, and Chemical |
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12:00
p.m. |
Jung-Ki Park, KAIST, Korea New MEA based on Hydrocarbon Membrane with High
Interfacial Stability |
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12:30
p.m. |
James
E. McGrath and Tom Zawodzinski Closing
Remarks |
MEETING
WEBSITE: http://www.polyacs.org/arcmeetings/fuelcells.07.shtml