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Article: Project Summaries.(Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of Connecticut )
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- Fuel Cell Technology News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Here are brief summaries of several of the specific projects, with points of contact.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (PI: Bryan Pivovar; email: pivovar@lanl.gov). LANL's approach to exploring this problem is to investigate 'free' protons containing ionic liquids. These are based on imidazole cations and dihydrogen phosphate (H2PO4-) or bisulfate (HSO4-) anions capable of proton conduction (hopping candidates). While these substances have the ability to act as anhydrous proton conductors, they are extremely hygroscopic and may exhibit greatly increased conductivity even at low RH. Candidate materials have been evaluated in terms of conductivity, water uptake and ...