Lucía Morales, a student of the M.Sc. Advanced Materials and Processes at FAU in Erlangen, is joining the group to carry on her master thesis. The topic will complement the research of different catalyst layers (CL) of low Pt metal proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) using the in-house built Gas Diffusion Electrode (GDE) in collaboration with Pascal Lauf, a Ph.D. candidate from our group.
But what’s new? The project will go into further analysis of the performance of the ORR reaction when changing the Pt carbon support (non-porous and porous) of the CL. Thus, bridging the gap between fundamental and applied research of PEMFC by checking the reaction over the range of relevant FC potentials and current densities thanks to the use of the GDE setup.