AIR Option 1: Technology Translation: Low-cost, Metal-free, Carbon-based Oxygen Reduction Catalysts for Highly-efficient Fuel Cells

这个PFI：空气技术转换项目专注于转换球磨技术，以生产低成本、无金属、碳基的电催化剂，作为商业燃料电池昂贵的铂催化剂的替代品。翻译后的催化技术具有以下独特特点：低成本、可扩展和环保处理、高催化活性和无甲醇效应/无钴中毒，与市场领域领先的竞争对手铂和相关贵金属催化剂相比，提供了堪称典范的高性能和显著的成本节约。该项目通过开发一种可扩展的球磨工艺来实现其目标，以生产功能石墨烯材料，作为燃料电池中氧还原反应的无金属催化剂/电极，从而产生燃料电池原型。潜在的经济影响预计将是未来五年用于交通和固定应用的高效燃料电池，这将有助于美国在燃料电池市场的竞争力。从长远来看，社会影响将是培训下一代研究人员和工程师，减少我国对外国石油的依赖，减少温室气体排放和环境污染。

This PFI: AIR Technology Translation project focuses on translating ball milling technology to produce low-cost, metal-free, carbon-based electrocatalysts as replacements for expensive platinum catalysts for commercial fuel cells. The translated catalytic technology has the following unique features: low-cost, scalable and eco-friendly processing, high catalytic activity, and MeOH-effect/Co-poisoning free that provides exemplary high performance and significant cost saving when compared to the leading competing platinum and related noble metal catalysts in this market space. The project accomplishes its objectives by developing a scalable ball milling process to produce functional graphene materials as metal-free catalyst/electrodes for oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells, resulting in a fuel cell prototype. The potential economic impact is expected to be highly-efficient fuel cells for transportation and stationary applications in the next five years, which will contribute to the U.S. competitiveness in the fuel cell market. The societal impact, long term, will be the training of the next generation researchers and engineers, reducing our national reliance on foreign petroleum, and reduction of greenhouse gas emission and environment pollution.