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

AIR选项1：技术转化：用于高效燃料电池的低成本、无金属、碳基氧还原催化剂

• 批准号: 1343270
• 负责人: Liming Dai
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1343270&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AIR; Option; Technology; Translation; Low

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.

该PFI：AIR技术转化项目的重点是转化球磨技术，以生产低成本、无金属、碳基电催化剂，作为商业燃料电池昂贵铂催化剂的替代品。转化催化技术具有以下独特功能：低成本，可扩展和环保的加工，高催化活性，无MeOH效应/Co中毒，与该市场领域领先的竞争铂和相关贵金属催化剂相比，提供了示例性的高性能和显着的成本节约。该项目通过开发可扩展的球磨工艺来实现其目标，以生产功能性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运输和固定应用的高效燃料电池，这将有助于提高美国在燃料电池市场的竞争力。长期的社会影响将是培养下一代研究人员和工程师，减少我们国家对外国石油的依赖，减少温室气体排放和环境污染。