Fuel Cells Technology and Electrode Materials for a Sustainable Future

Anuj Kumar obtained an M.Tech. in Instrumentation from the Indian Institute of Technology Kurukshetra in 2004 and a PhD in Embedded Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2011. Between 2011 and 2015, he held posts as a Postdoc Fellow at the University of Seoul, the University of Pretoria, and the National University of Singapore. He has been working on devices to monitor indoor air quality and to tackle associated problems for the past 15 years. His research interests include sensing applications, wireless sensor-actuator networks, energy-efficient buildings, and the Internet of Things applied to building physics. Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. He is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Materials Advancement (NIMA). Dr. Gupta has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Gupta’s research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including: semiconducting materials & devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production & storage using nanostructured materials & conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics & photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold & antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants.

1. Basics of Fuel Cells
2. Thermodynamic Chemistry of PEM Fuel Cell
3. Electrode Kinetics
4. Concentration Polarization
5. Characterization of Fuel Cells
6. Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction
7. Emerging Materials for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR)
8. Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction
9. Emerging Materials for Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction (HOR)
10. Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Methanol and Ethanol
11. Emerging Materials for Alcohol Oxidation Reaction (AOR)
12. Single-Atom Catalysts for ORR and AOR
13. Dual-Atom Catalysts for ORR and AOR