Our current PhD students and their areas of research are listed below:
Gas cleaning using dense metallic membranes such as thin film palladium for hydrogen purification.
Liquid hydrocarbons in SOFCs, hydrogen fuel cells, colloids and delivery of molecules to the consumer.
Optimisation of the thermal management of a solid state hydrogen store based on magnesium hydride.
Novel method to the integration of a fuel cell systtem into a UAV with a view to improving vehicle weight and payload capacity.
Barriers to fuel cell micro combined heat and power in UK homes.
Understanding the technologies in order to influence the behaviours
Development of high performance HT-PEFC electrodes for use in automotive PEFCs.
Development of 3D structured catalyst layers for improved PT utilisation and performance within PEM Fuel Cells.
Towards photocatalytic water-splitting by size-selected MoS2 nanoclusters
Development of lithium amide materials for hydrogen storage applications.
Discovery of novel materials for solid state storage of hydrogen.
Modeling of novel tubular membrane elec. assemblies (MEAS) for PEMFC applications.
Optimization of gas diffusion layers (GDL) for PEFCs.
Integration of a fuel cell into domestic housing for CHP applications.
Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrolytes
Electronics study of fuel cell hybrid systems.
Control of a Fuel Cell Vehicle.
Thermal management of evaporatively cooled fuel cell vehicles.Christopher Fry
Characterisation of hydrogen storage using novel nanostructured materials deposited by plasma assisted PVD.
Hydrogen Storage Materials
Developing new catalysts for protic ionic liquid fuel cells following research of the mechanism of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR).
Novel cathode electrode catalysts for PEMFCs
Characterisation of and hydrogen gas generation from digestate waste.
Novel molecules synthesised for hydrogen storage using imine-linked microporous organic molecular frameworks
Development of low cost high performance bipolar place materials for PEMFC applications.
Niche market applications and the marketing of hydrogen and fuels cells.
Intermediate and high temperature membrane materials for fuel cell application.
Development and application of micro tubular solid oxide fuel cell stacks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Control systems for fuel cells and hybrid powered man-portable unmanned aircraft systems.
Modelling the structures and chemical properties of metallic bio-nanoparticles.
Molecules for hydrogen storage.
Multi fuel reforming.
Techno-Economic analysis of a Microbial Fuel Cell driven anaerobic digestion process.
Advanced Nanoparticles for Fuel Cell Application.
John Geoffrey Maillard
Oxide fuel cell degradation.
The optimisation of fabrication methods for proton exchange membrane fuel cells for fuel cell vehicles.
Fuel Cells for Vehicles.
Photoelectrochemical generation of hydrogen.
SOFC Applications for Combined Heat and Power.
Arvin Mossadegh Pour
Coupling high performance metal hydride hydrogen storage to SOFC stystems.
Fuel cell catalyst nanoparticle preparation and aggregation study.
Chemistry of nanoparticles in solid oxide fuel cell anodes.
Hybrid precious metal-carbon (nano)structures for novel electrocatalysts.
Catalytic generation of hydrogen: synthetic models of the [NiFe] hydrogenases
Modelling and simulation of fuel cells: improving robustness and understanding contamination.
Mathematical modelling of fuel cells.
Fuel processing of gasifier output.
Integration and optimisation of a sustainable hydrogen energy system for combined stationary and transport use.
Nathan Jin Lei Shang
Hydrogen fuel cell and battery hybrid technology for low carbon automobiles.
Hydrogen production using enzyme catalysis through synthetic analogues of the [NiFe] hydrogenase active site.
Hydrogen production through electrolytic processes.
Social and political barriers to fuel cell energy.
Microtubular SOFC operating on bio methane.
Evan Tsang-I Tsai
Development of a control system for the solid oxide fuel cell stack with combined heat and power systems.
Development of a fuel cell powered refridgerated truck.
Hydrogen production via methane decomposition.
Reliability analysis and lifetime predictions of PEM fuel cells using experimental and modelling techniques.
Production and development of bio supported electrocatalysts.
Photocatalytic (solar) production of H2 with size-selected, tunable nanocatalysts.
Nanotoxicological properties of fuel cell emissions.