The CFCI Website is Moving!
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To reflect the CFCI's incorporation into the Energy Materials Center at Cornell (emc2), the DOE-funded EFRC at Cornell, this CFCI website will be moving. Please update your pointers to our site. Thank you.
CFCI part of the emc2
The Energy Materials Center at Cornell (emc2) was funded by the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences as one of the 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) in late 2009.
emc2 includes the research programs of the CFCI, and adds a new thrust towards improved battery materials. Full information can be found at the emc2 webste.
New CFCI Results in the News!
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CFCI is now part of emc2
Advancing the science of energy conversion (especially fuel cells) and storage (including batteries) by understanding and exploiting fundamental properties of active materials and their interfaces.
CFCI Develops Materials for Tomorrow's MEAs
Fuel cells enable the most efficient generation of electricity from a chemical fuel. There are many different types of fuel cell, and several of these are already being succesfully commercialized as stationary electric generators, for example. The Cornell Fuel Cell Institute aims coordinated research resources at developing advanced materials for a particular kind of fuel cell: lower-temperature, polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells. Many automobile manufacturers, together with the US Department of Energy, are focusing on PEM fuel cells for the cars of the future. When we hear about cars driving on hydrogen, we are hearing about fuel cell cars — and probably PEM based fuel cell cars. CFCI is working with industry and with DOE-support to help make this technology a commercial success-story.
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