Programme


Programme

Sunday 15th September 2019
15:00 - 19:00 Registration desk open
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome buffet & Poster session 1
Monday 16th September 2019
Topic 01 - Non-PGM and ultralow PGM CATALYSTS (for ORR, PEMFC) - Chairs: F. Jaouen and A. Weber
08:45 - 09:00 Conference opening
Dr. Deborah Jones & Dr. Frédéric Jaouen
09:00 - 09:40 Plenary
PGM-poor and PGM-free ORR fuel cell electrocatalysts
Peter Strasser, Technical Univerity of Berlin, Germany
09:40 - 10:00 Oral
How Small: Selecting the right size of Pt Nanoparticles to enhance Their Oxygen Electroreduction Mass Activity
Batyr Garlyyev, Technical University of Munich, Germany
10:00 - 10:20 Oral
Novel Double Passivation Galvanic Displacement Method for Production of High Performance Pt-alloy Electrocatalysts
Matija Gatalo
, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
10:20 - 10:40 Oral
Pd3Y alloyed NPs prepared by Laser Ablation: towards zero platinum in PEMFC cathode catalysts
Riccardo Brandiele
, University of Padova, Italy
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 Plenary
Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction: State of the Art, Mechanistic Insights, and Challenges
Piotr Zelenay, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
11:40 - 12:00 Oral
Active-site imprinting: Template ion reactions towards tailored Fe-N-C electrocatalysts
Tim-Patrick Fellinger
, Technical University of Munich, Germany
12:00 - 12:20 Oral
What core@shell model studies can teach us about electrocatalysis ?
Gaetano Granozzi
, University of Padova, Italy
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Topic 02 - Catalysts for anion-exchange membrane fuel cells - Chair: L. Elbaz
14:00 - 14:40 Plenary
New Catalysts and Electrode Designs for High Power, Long-Life AEMFCs
William Mustain
, University of South Carolina, USA
14:40 - 15:20 Plenary
Advances in Low and Pt-free loading in Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Bryan Pivovar
, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
15:20 - 15:40 Oral
Iron and nitrogen doped carbide-derived carbon/carbon nanotube composite catalysts for fuel cell cathodes
Kaido Tammeveski
, University of Tartu, Estonia
15:40 - 16:00 Oral
Non-Precious Metal Nitrides as Novel Electrocatalyst for Enhanced Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction
Vineesh Thazhe Veettil
, Bar Ilan University, Israel
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
Topic 03 - Catalysts for anion- exchange membrane electrolysers - Chair: J. R. Galan-Mascaros
16:20 - 16:40 Oral
High performance anion exchange membrane electrolysis using plasma-sprayed, non-precious metal electrodes
Andreas Friedrich
, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
16:40 - 17:00 Oral
Direct electrolysis of lignin in a continuous-flow Polymer Electrolyte Membrane reactor
Angel Caravaca
, IRCELYON-CNRS, France
17:00 - 17:20 Oral
Water Dissociation Catalysis
Sebastian Oener
, University of Oregon, USA
17:20 - 17:40 Oral
Degradation Mechanisms of Manganese Oxide Electrocatalysts - Guidelines for Alkaline Energy Conversion Devices
Florian Speck
, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
17:40 - 18:00 Oral
Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering as in situ Characterisation Tools for 3D Transition Metal Based Catalysts for OER
Marc Frédéric Tesch
, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany
18:00 - 19:00 Break
  
19:00 - 21:00 Poster session 2 and réception
Tuesday 17th September 2019
H2020 FCH-JU session
09:00 - 09:15 Oral
CRESCENDO project Overview
Deborah Jones
, CNRS Montpellier, France
09:15 - 09:35 Oral
Increasing population of oxygen reduction active sites in Fe-N/C catalysts
Asad Mehmood, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom
09:35 - 09:50 Oral
CREATE project Overview
Frédéric Jaouen
, CNRS Montpellier, France
09:50 - 10:10 Oral
Novel strategies to enhance OER electrocatalysis in alkaline media
Jose Ramon Galan-Mascaros
, Institute of Chemical Research of Tarragona (ICIQ), Spain
10:10 - 10:25 Oral
PEGASUS project Overview
Pierre-André Jacques
, CEA Grenoble, France
10:25 - 10:45 Oral
Synthesis and characterization of Fe-N-C aerogel catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction
Sandrine Berthon-Fabry
, MINES Paristech / PERSEE, France
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Topic 07 – Mass-transport issues for non-PGM and ultra-low PGM loadings - Chair: J. Herranz
11:00 - 11:40 Plenary
The labyrinth around low PGM fuel cells for the electrification of the power train
Alex Martinez Bonastre, Johnson Matthey PLC, United Kingdom
11:40 - 12:00 Oral
Resistances in low-Pt-loaded catalyst layers from a mass transport and ionomer point of view
Adam Weber
, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
12:00 - 12:20 Oral
Measurement of oxygen transport resistance of precious metal-free (PGM-free) catalyst layers in PEMFC
Yang-Shen Li
, Technical University of Munich, Germany
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Topic 06 - Advanced characterisation techniques - Chair: P. Zelenay
14:00 - 14:40 Plenary
Understanding Pyrolysis of PGM-free Electrocatalysts with Micro- and Nano- Synchrotron X-ray Computed Tomography
Iryna Zenyuk, University of California Irvine, USA
14:40 - 15:00 Oral
Insights into the Pyrolysis of Fe-N-C Electrocatalysts using High Temperature XAFS
Stephen Lyth
, Kyushu University, Japan
15:00 - 15:20 Oral
Revealing the mechanism of active site formation in Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon catalysts
Andrea Zitolo
, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France
15:20 - 15:40 Oral
X-ray Emission Spectroscopy Insights into the Spin State of Iron in Fe/N/C Catalysts
Kathrin Ebner
, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
15:40 - 16:00 Oral
Quantum Chemical Investigation of Spectroscopic Properties of Fe-N-C model catalysts
Charlotte Gallencamp
, TU Darmstadt, Germany
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
Topic 03 - Catalysts for proton-exchange membrane electrolysers - Chair: B. Pivovar
16:20 - 16:40 Oral
Multi-Component Ni-Ir Electrocatalysts toward Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Meital Shviro
, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
16:40 - 17:00 Oral
Spray-dried, Ultraporous Ir-based Catalyst for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyser
Jennifer Péron
, Université Paris Diderot, France
17:00 - 17:20 Oral
Performance of [Mo3S13]2- nanoclusters based cathodes in PEM water electrolysis – loading variation
Peter Holzapfel
, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
17:20 - 17:40 Oral
The Stability of Atomically Dispersed Pt Electroatalyst
Michael Paul
, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
17:40 - 18:00 Oral
Operando X-ray Characterization of High Surface Area Iridium Oxides to Decouple their Activity Losses for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Juan Herranz
, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
18:00 - 19:15 Break
  
19:30 -
Banquet Dinner
Wednesday 18th September 2019
  Topic 01, non-PGM and ultralow PGM Catalysts - Chair: P. Atanassov
09:00 - 09:40 Plenary
Recent Advances in the Design of PGM-free Catalysts: From Molecular Catalysts to the State-of-the-Art Heat-Treated Atomically Dispersed Catalysts
Lior Elbaz, Bar Ilan University, Israel
09:40 - 10:00 Oral
Designing M−N/C Electrocatalysts with Preferentially Generated M–Nx Sites for Efficient Energy Conversion Electrocatalysis
Sang Hoon Joo
, UNIST, Republic of Korea
10:00 - 10:20 Oral
Effect of Partial Oxygen Pressure of Pt/Nb-SnO2 Cathode Catalyst Layers on Load Cycle Durability for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells
Makoto Uchida
, University of Yamanashi, Japan
10:20 - 10:40 Oral
A Ti3O5Mo0.2Si0.4-based metal oxide support with enhanced conductivity and stability
Bradley Easton
, Ontario Tech University, Canada
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Topic 08 - Ageing and durability - Chairs: A. Friedrich and S. Cavaliere
11:00 - 11:40 Plenary
Are PGM-free Fuel Cell Catalysts Ready for Prime-Time?
Alexey Serov, Pajarito Powder LLC, USA
11:40 - 12:00 Oral
Atomically dispersed Fe-N-C active sites: chemistry, morphology, activity and stability insights

Plamen Atanassov,
University of California Irvine, USA
12:00 - 12:20 Oral
Instability of Fe-N-C catalysts in acidic conditions
Chang Hyuck Choi
, GIST, Republic of Korea
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:40 Plenary
Oxygen Reduction Activity of Group 4 and 5 Oxide-Based Cathodes for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells
Akimitsu Ishihara, Yokohama National University, Japan
14:40 - 15:00 Oral
Non-covalent integration of a Ni based molecular catalyst to graphene acid for efficient, noble-metal free, electrocatalytic H2 oxidation
Bertrand Reuillard
, CEA Grenoble, France
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:00 Plenary
Recent Progress on Nanofiber Electrodes for Hydrogen/Air Fuel Cells
Peter Pintauro, Vanderbilt University, USA
16:00 - 16:20 Oral
Low cost ZIF-8 metal organic frameworks as precursor for Fe/N/C oxygen reduction catalysts
Carsten Cremers
, Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT), Germany
16:50 - 17:00 Close of Conference

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