2015 AIChE Annual Meeting Proceedings

Session: Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Production and Fuel Cells I

This session focuses on the design, synthesis, fabrication, and characterization of nanomaterials for hydrogen production including catalysts for fuel processors and photocatalysts for photoelectrochemical cells. Papers describe experimental, theoretical and computational work.

Chair

Yong Lak Joo, Cornell University

Co-Chairs

Prashant Nagpal, University of Colorado

Presentations

08:30 AM

(486a) Micro Structural and Electrical Properties of Ceria-Yttria Stabilized Zirconia Nanocomposites
Alka Gupta, Kantesh Balani

08:48 AM

(486b) Nanostructured Robust Cobalt Alloy Based Anode Electro-Catalysts with Superior Electrochemical Activity for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Prasad P. Patel, Moni Kanchan Datta, Oleg Velikokhatnyi, Prashanth Jampani, Prashant N. Kumta

09:06 AM

(486c) Pathways Towards Defect-Tolerate, Electrochemically Stable Solar-Hydrogen Membranes
Shu Hu, Ke Sun, Matthew Shaner, Michael Lichterman, P. Daniel Dapkus, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Nathan S. Lewis

09:24 AM

(486d) PtCo/Coox Nanocomposites As Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions Synthesized Via Tandem Laser Ablation Synthesis in Solution-Galvanic Replacement Reactions
Sheng Hu

09:42 AM

(486e) Activity of Electroless Deposited Transition Metal-Catalyst for the Alcoholysis of Ammonia Borane
Egwu E. Kalu, James A. Omoleye, Edith O. Onyeozili, Vincent Efeovbokhan

10:00 AM

(486f) Effect of Nanosize on Adsorptive and Catalytic Properties of NiO Nanoparticles Towards Heavy Hydrocarbons: Kinetics, Thermodynamics and Mechanistic Insights