PFI-TT: Next Generation Fuel Cell Catalysts for Efficient Energy Conversion

PFI-TT：用于高效能量转换的下一代燃料电池催化剂

• 批准号: 1919220
• 负责人: Sundeep Mukherjee
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of North Texas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919220&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; TT; Next; Generation; Fuel

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) project is a transformative approach to design and manufacturing of special materials, called catalysts, to accelerate chemical reactions for next-generation energy conversion applications. State-of-the-art catalysts used in fuel cells have low efficiency and poor durability, limiting their widespread use. This program will address the key bottlenecks in catalyst design and manufacturing to increase their efficiency and durability, while reducing their cost. A broad spectrum of high-tech industries could potentially benefit from commercialization of this technology, including automotive industry, consumer electronics, and fuel cell and battery manufacturers. The proposed technology can potentially have a direct impact on high-tech manufacturing in the United States, paving the way for clean-energy technology ventures and possibly leading to multiple start-up companies. This project will enhance the engagement between academia and industry on multiple fronts, including entrepreneurial education, exposure of students to industrial development, and development of a new ecosystem based on clean energy technology. Working alongside industrial partners will help train students to enter the workforce upon graduation with innovation experience beyond their laboratory-based research knowledge. Advanced manufacturing entrepreneurship will be a key outcome of the project. The proposed project will address the key bottlenecks of efficiency, cost, and durability in current energy conversion technologies. It will lead to rapid discovery and scale-up of high performance catalysts, using an integrated manufacturing and computational approach. The higher durability, resistance to poisoning, and lower cost of high-performance amorphous electro-catalysts could be potentially transformative in energy conversion devices. It will provide a pathway for technical advancement of next generation electro-catalysts as well as their successful commercialization. The intellectual merit of the project is based on pulsed co-electrodeposition of catalysts, which will allow fabrication of a wide range of chemistries with continuous control over their surface characteristics. Amorphous metals represent a transformative approach to electro-catalyst design because of their tunable catalytic properties and high concentration of atomic-level defect sites unavailable in current state-of-the-art catalysts. The specific research tasks include combinatorial synthesis of a large number of catalyst libraries by thin-film sputtering, high throughput molecular dynamics simulation, parallel characterization of catalytic activity by advanced multiplexing strategies, and manufacturing scale-up of promising compositions. Finally, the developed catalysts will be benchmarked against the state-of-the-art technologies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该创新-技术转化伙伴关系（PFI-TT）项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是设计和制造特殊材料（称为催化剂）的变革性方法，以加速下一代能源转换应用的化学反应。 燃料电池中使用的最先进的催化剂具有低效率和差的耐久性，限制了它们的广泛使用。该计划将解决催化剂设计和制造中的关键瓶颈，以提高其效率和耐用性，同时降低成本。广泛的高科技行业可能从这项技术的商业化中受益，包括汽车工业、消费电子产品以及燃料电池和电池制造商。这项拟议中的技术可能会对美国的高科技制造业产生直接影响，为清洁能源技术企业铺平道路，并可能导致多家初创公司的诞生。该项目将加强学术界和工业界在多个方面的参与，包括创业教育、学生接触工业发展以及开发基于清洁能源技术的新生态系统。与工业合作伙伴一起工作将有助于培养学生在毕业后进入劳动力市场，并获得超越实验室研究知识的创新经验。先进的制造业创业将是该项目的一个关键成果。拟议的项目将解决当前能源转换技术中的效率、成本和耐用性等关键瓶颈。它将导致快速发现和规模的高性能催化剂，使用集成的制造和计算方法。高性能非晶电催化剂具有更高的耐久性、抗中毒性和更低的成本，这在能量转换装置中可能具有潜在的变革性。它将为下一代电催化剂的技术进步及其成功商业化提供途径。该项目的智力价值是基于催化剂的脉冲共电沉积，这将允许制造各种化学物质，并对其表面特性进行连续控制。非晶态金属代表了电催化剂设计的变革性方法，因为它们的可调催化性能和高浓度的原子级缺陷位点在当前最先进的催化剂中不可用。具体的研究任务包括通过薄膜溅射组合合成大量的催化剂库，高通量分子动力学模拟，通过先进的多路复用策略并行表征催化活性，以及有前途的组合物的制造规模。最后，开发的催化剂将以最先进的技术为基准。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Nanomanufacturing of Non-Noble Amorphous Alloys for Electrocatalysis

• DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c02221
• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 作者: V. Hasannaeimi;Xiaowei Wang;R. Salloom;Z. Xia;J. Schroers;S. Mukherjee

Deformation behavior of metallic glass composites and plasticity accommodation at microstructural length-scales

• DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2020.101237
• 发表时间: 2020-09-01
• 期刊: MATERIALS TODAY COMMUNICATIONS
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Hasannaeimi, Vahid;Muskeri, Saideep;Mukherjee, Sundeep
• 通讯作者: Mukherjee, Sundeep

Corrosion mechanisms in model binary metallic glass coatings on mild steel and correlation with electron work function

• DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2022.110578
• 发表时间: 2022-10-01
• 期刊: CORROSION SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 8.3
• 作者: Mahajan, Chaitanya;Hasannaeimi, Vahid;Mukherjee, Sundeep
• 通讯作者: Mukherjee, Sundeep

Hydrogen oxidation reaction response of noble-metal based bulk metallic glasses

• DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.136616
• 发表时间: 2020-09
• 期刊: Electrochimica Acta
• 影响因子: 6.6
• 作者: V. Hasannaeimi;Chun-Yu Lin;Z. Xia;S. Mukherjee

Electrodeposited metallic glasses with superlative wear resistance

• DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2021.141315
• 发表时间: 2021-04
• 期刊: Materials Science and Engineering: A
• 作者: M. Pole;Maryam Sadeghilaridjani;J. Shittu;Chaitanya G Mahajan;Nandita Ghodki;S. Mukherjee