Gokul Venugopalan and co-workers publish a paper in ACS Applied Energy Materials on new high temperature membranes for fuel cells

Gokul Venugopalan from the Arges group published a paper in ACS Applied Energy Materials on anhydrous, high temperature polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cells. The new membranes were produced from phosphoric acid doped polycation-polybenzimidazole blends and they demonstrate remarkably high proton conductivity and thermal stability. Competitive fuel cell performance was attained with the new membranes at the challenging condition of 220^oC without water and the fuel cell was stable over 100 hours at 180^oC. The work was sponsored by the LSU Lift², LA Board of Regents (Proof-of-Concept/Prototyping Fund), and the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. The work included contributions from researchers at the University of Virginia.