Fuel Cell Materials Center
Aiming for diffusion of “fuel cells” through research on this key technology in the environment/energy field
Fuel cells are positioned as a key technology in the environment/energy field of the 21st Century. The Fuel Cell Materials Center is seeking to develop solid electrolytes/electrodes with high performance at temperatures in the 200-500 deg C range, low-cost but highly corrosion-resistant separator materials, high-performance Hydrogen production catalysts and inexpensive yet highly-efficient Hydrogen permeation materials, as these hold the key to the diffusion of fuel cells.
Managing Director's Greeting
- Managing Director
- Chikashi NISHIMURA
At our center, materials are analyzed and controlled from the micro- to nanometer scale and also are elucidated in terms of structure and properties as well as interactions thereto, in order to help guide the development of superior fuel cell materials. Furthermore, in order to propagate these, we seek to develop materials – with high corrosion-resistance levels, ion conductions, catalytic functions and mechanical strengths – that can be used over the long-term in actual fuel-cell and Hydrogen-production systems, through study of effects on ion conduction and catalytic performance, by structural details and surface as well as interface structures by nanostructural control that enables full performance of potential functions.
- Deputy-Managing Director
- Toshiyuki MORI
News / Press Release
Groups
Hydrogen Purification Materials Group
We conduct assessments – in order to provide a practical Hydrogen permeation membrane which helps to reduce the amount of rare-metal use – on the durability and Hydrogen purification capacity of a Hydrogen permeation membrane module. For this module, we adopted an economical V(Vanadium?)-type membrane with high Hydrogen-production capacity.
| Group Leader | Chikashi NISHIMURA | ||
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| Group Member | Masao KOMAKI | Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI | |
Intermetallic Catalyst Group
| Group Leader | Anpang TSAI | ||
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| Group Member | Ya XU | Masahiko DEMURA | |
Nano Ionics Materials Group
We are developing, through control of nanolevel structures, high-performance solid electrolytes and electrodes as well as new materials potentially applicable to future fuel cells, in order to offer fuel cell materials that are operable even in the 200-500 deg C range.
| Deputy-Managing Director | Toshiyuki MORI | ||
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| Group Member | Je-Deok KIM | Ajayan Vinu | |
Stack Materials Group
We aim to develop, through use of low-Nickel, high-Nitrogen austenitic stainless steel – developed by NIMS – for this, a corrosive-resistant metal separator suited for use with polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs).
| Group Leader | Yasuyuki KATADA | ||
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| Group Member | Yoshitaka ADACHI | ||
Contact to Center
Fuel Cell Materials Center, NIMS
1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0047 JAPAN
TEL. +81-29-859-2652
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