The importance of fuel cells to address the global warming problem

Electrochemical fabrication of mesoporous metal-alloy films

“…Fuel cell development is accelerating in response to current environmental concerns and the growing demand for more efficient power sources. 169 The fuel cell, which transforms the chemical energy in the fuel directly to electrical energy, has a numerous advantages over traditional combustion-based technologies. 170,171 Hydrogen has emerged as a possible successor for fossil fuels, as a clean and sustainable energy with the highest energy density.…”

Disorder in energy materials and strategies to model it

“…While remarkable research efforts have been made to achieve the sustainable-fuel future, built on economically viable and secure energy supply [1][2][3][4][5][6], the commercialization of associated technologies remains a challenge. The major hurdle in achieving the economic success from the existing sustainable technologies is that the materials used at their core are extremely expensive (such as Pt, Nafion) [7], and the materials that are cheap and abundant (such as glasses, ceramics) are not active enough to be used commercially.…”

Mapping innovation and diffusion of hydrogen fuel cell technologies: Evidence from the UK's hydrogen fuel cell technological innovation system, 1954–2012

“…HFCs store and release electrical energy cleanly and on demand (Appleby, 1990, Hart, 2000, Hardman et al, 2013. When installed in stationary and mobile devices, advocates claim HFCs have the potential to help regional, national and international policy makers decarbonize and move away from fossil fuels (Walsh, 1990, Perry and Fuller, 2002, Bockris, 2002, Eliasson and Bossel, 2002, Hall and Kerr, 2003, Agnolucci, 2007, Maggio et al, 2019, Pollet et al, 2019. HFC development in the last two decades continues to face the key issues of making unit costs competitive (Zegers, 2006, McDowall and Eames, 2007, Agnolucci and Ekins, 2007, the mixed public understanding of the potential (Haraldsson et al, 2006, Ricci et al, 2008, Martin et al, 2009, Bellaby et al, 2016, slow shifts in market demand (Ajanovic and Haas, 2018), the means of improved public-private coordination (McDowall, 2012) and the level of commitment of major manufacturers to this radical technology (van den Hoed, 2005).…”