Advanced Manufacturing of Fuel Cells and Fuel-Cell Components: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D2: Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 108
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atomization and sprays; spray cooling; fire suppression; fuel cells; additive layer manufacturing; laser-based techniques; infrared thermography; thermometry
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Interests: ceramic materials; rheology; material characterization; ceramic engineering; thin films and nanotechnology; nanomaterials; nanocomposites; nanostructured materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the world is transitioning to more sustainable energy sources, hydrogen serves as one of the leading energy vectors. Its use in fuel cells to obtain heat and power is becoming increasingly popular, both for stationary and for mobile applications; quite remarkably, even fuel-cell types fed by other fuels (e.g., direct methanol fuel cells) are considered very promising and substantial research efforts have been spent on them. However, the growing demand from industry requires that fuel-cell manufacturing be upgraded from small-batch (sometimes lab-scale) to mass production, in parallel with increasing product quality and reducing the consumption of critical raw materials. Therefore, research on innovative and advanced fabrication and production strategies is of paramount importance; this Special Issue specifically aims to serve as a collection of the most recent contributions in the field.
The following topics are of significant interest, but manuscripts addressing other relevant topics are also welcome:
- Additive manufacturing techniques applied to fuel cells;
- Fabrication of the entire membrane electrode assembly;
- Deposition of the catalyst layers and membrane manufacturing process;
- Manufacturing of bipolar plates and gas diffusion layers;
- Production of fuel-cell gaskets;
- Fuel-cell stack assembly lines;
- Techno-economic assessment of the whole industrial process or part(s) of it;
- Automation.
Prof. Dr. Paolo E. Santangelo
Prof. Dr. Marcello Romagnoli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fabrication process
- coating
- printing
- electrochemical performance
- advanced methods
- techno-economic analysis
