I-Corps: Thin Flexible Fuel Cell

I-Corps：薄型柔性燃料电池

• 批准号: 1738151
• 负责人: Ronald Besser
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Stevens Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738151&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Thin; Flexible; Fuel; Cell

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is in the displacement of many battery applications with an alternative technology based on a Thin Flexible Fuel Cell (TFFC). Initial target markets include the many applications in which long-life, compactness and high performance are important. Based on the needs for portable storage filled by batteries at present, a technology that increases lifetimes between charging by ten times will impact multiple applications including smartphones, tablets, test equipment, medical instruments, and small autonomous vehicles. The result will be greater flexibility and versatility imparted to the various systems impacted, and greater utility and benefit to their users.This I-Corps project leverages a recent discovery in hydrogen fuel cell technology, the Thin Flexible Fuel Cell (TFFC). The structural components of the TFFC are constructed completely from soft materials, rather than rigid and more dense metals, plastics or composites. The result is that the device is ultra-thin ( 1 mm), sheet-like, and may be bent into almost any arbitrary shape. It is also extremely light and has among the highest recorded power densities on a mass or volume basis for compact, air-breathing, fuel cells. The fuel cell was discovered through research on the implementation of low-cost two-dimensional device fabrication involving nano-imprint lithography. The device was found to have five times the power density (W/kg) of state-of-the-art commercially available ultra-light, compact fuel cells. Moreover, the TFFC is completely passive with respect to oxygen supply and thermal management, needing no extra sub-systems for these functions.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是用基于薄柔性燃料电池（TFFC）的替代技术取代许多电池应用。最初的目标市场包括许多应用，其中长寿命，紧凑性和高性能是重要的。基于目前对电池填充的便携式存储的需求，将充电之间的寿命延长十倍的技术将影响包括智能手机，平板电脑，测试设备，医疗仪器和小型自动驾驶汽车在内的多种应用。 其结果将是更大的灵活性和多功能性赋予各种系统的影响，更大的效用和效益，他们的users.This I-Corps项目利用了最近发现的氢燃料电池技术，薄柔性燃料电池（TFFC）。TFFC的结构部件完全由软材料制成，而不是刚性和更致密的金属，塑料或复合材料。其结果是，该设备是超薄（1毫米），片状，并可以弯曲成几乎任何任意形状。它还非常轻，并且在质量或体积上具有紧凑型、吸气式燃料电池的最高功率密度。 燃料电池是通过研究涉及纳米压印光刻的低成本二维器件制造的实现而发现的。该装置的功率密度（W/kg）是最先进的市售超轻紧凑型燃料电池的五倍。此外，TFFC在氧气供应和热管理方面是完全被动的，不需要额外的子系统来实现这些功能。