Dr Shangfeng Du Fuel Cells Group School of

Dr Shangfeng Du Fuel Cells Group, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick s. du@bham. ac. uk; www. fuelcells. bham. ac. uk Home: Anhui China

Research Areas: Nanoparticles for Fuel Cells • Nanoparticle catalysts for PEMFCs Nano-size precious and non-precious electrocatalysts with new compositions and novel nanostructures. • Facile techniques for Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs) in PEMFCs and Scale-up in industry One-step deposition method for integrated Gas Diffusion Electrodes (GDEs) by simple wet chemical methods.

Research Areas: Nanoparticles for Fuel Cells • Inorganic material study Preparation processes, characterization techniques, and the potential applications, etc. • Nanoparticle aggregation analysis Molecular attraction between nanoparticles, protein and viruses.

Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Research background PEMFC House (With BAXI) PEMFC Car: (Micro: Cab) A clean power generator High cost; poor durability PEMFC Electro-catalyst layer: Simple procedure and novel nanostructures

A facile procedure for catalyst layer • The normal method: three steps • A facile procedure for integrated Gas Diffusion Electrode (GDE) with Pt nanowires as catalysts on Gas Diffusion Layer (GDL) (J Power Sources 195 (2010) 289) • One-step deposition method • Room temperature • Not using other catalysts or templates

Pt nanowires grown on GDL Images GDL before catalyst deposition As-prepared GDE Pt nanowires

Electrochemical impedance spectra Performance Commercial ETEK GDE 120 E-W (BASF) As-prepared GDE with Pt nanowires

Comparison of the power density Performance

Oxygen & H 2 O Awards in French www. fuelcells. bham. ac. uk

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