Electrocatalysis for Membrane Fuel Cells

Nicolas Alonso-Vante has been a Professor at the University of Poitiers since September 1997. His main research interests are (Photo) electrochemistry and (Photo) electrocatalysis of novel materials using various ex-situ and in-situ techniques, fuel generation, interfacial characterization and surface analytical techniques. Prof. Alonso-Vante has authored over 250 publications, book chapters, is editor of a two-volume e-book on electrochemistry in Spanish, author of two books, and six patents. Current h-index 46 with ca. 6877 citations. Prof. Vito Di Noto is an electrochemist with more than 30 years of experience in the research and development of advanced functional materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices. Currently, his research activity is focused on the synthesis and the studies of the structure, relaxation phenomena and electrochemistry of electrode materials, ion-conducting and dielectric materials. He is the present President of the Italian Electrochemical Society. He organized and chaired top-level events in the field of electrochemistry, including several Symposia of the Electrochemical Society, meetings of the International Society for Solid State Ionics, and International Symposia on Polymer Electrolytes. He authored/co-authored over 291 papers: 245 are peer-reviewed papers, 10 are book chapters, 28 are patents and 8 are papers on proceedings.

Overview of Systems
Chapter 1 System-Level Constraints on Fuel Cell Materials and Electrocatalysts
Chapter 2 Fuel cell design from the atom to the automobile
Basics-Fundamentals
Chapter 3 Electrochemical Fundamentals
Chapter 4 Quantifying the kinetic parameters of fuel cell reactions
Chapter 5 Adverse and Beneficial functions of Surface Layers formed on Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts
State of the art
Chapter 6 Design of PGM-free ORR Catalysts: from Molecular to the State-of-the-Art
Chapter 7 Recent advances in Electrocatalysts for hydrogen oxidation reaction in Alkaline Electrolytes
Membranes for Fuel Cells
Chapter 8 Supports for Oxygen Reduction Catalysts: Understanding and Improving Structure, Stability and Activity
Physical Chemical Characterization
Chapter 9 Understanding the electrocatalytic reaction in the fuel cell by tracking the dynamics of the catalyst by X-ray
absorption spectroscopy
Modeling
Chapter 10 Unraveling local electrocatalytic conditions with theory and computation
Protocols
Chapter 11 Quantifying the Activity of Electrocatalysts
Chapter 12 Durability of Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts and Methods for Performance Assessment
Systems
Chapter 13 Modelling of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells
Chapter 14 Physics-based modelling of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: From cell to automotive systems