Surface engineering for hydrogen economy

拟议合作项目的总体目标是发展加拿大和德国在表面工程领域的合作，以实现绿色氢经济。重点放在生产工艺和材料的发展，可持续的氢产生/分离使用燃料电池系统。此次合作将受益于等离子体合成技术、材料工程、测试方法和氢相关生命周期分析领域的专业知识的协同作用，将促进获得表面工程领域高度互补的专业知识和设备，同时通过新的和新颖的教育产品为未来科学家和工程师的培训做出贡献。此外，协调一致的讨论、研讨会和外联活动将有助于建立一个涉及学术界、政府机构和工业界的国际网络，后者特别是在航空、汽车、能源和制造业部门。

The overall goal of the proposed collaborative project is to develop cooperation between Canada and Germany in the field of surface engineering for green hydrogen economy. Emphasis is placed on the development of production processes and materials for sustainable hydrogen generation/separation using fuel cell systems. The collaboration will benefit from the synergy of expertise in the area of plasma-based synthesis technologies, materials engineering, testing methods, and hydrogen-related life cycle analysis.The collaboration will enhance access to highly complementary expertise and equipment in surface engineering, while contributing to training of future scientists and engineers through new and novel educational offerings. In addition, coordinated discussions, seminars and outreach will help to build an international network involving academia, government institutions and industry, the latter ones particularly in the aviation, automotive, energy and manufacturing sectors.