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Special session: Fundamental  studies of  PCC hurdles

  •         Keynote 1:  "Challenges and achievements of PCC market" - Olivier Joubert, IMN Nantes
  •         Keynote 2:  "Strategies for the development of highly conductive and stable solid oxide proton electrolytes" - Panagiotis Tsiakaras , University of Thessaly, Greece
  •         Keynote 3:  "Grain boundaries and hetero-interfaces properties in PCC materials" - Dr. R. Merkle (MPI, D)
  •         Keynote 4:  "PANASONIC R&D in PCC: Progress and Accomplishment" - Dr. Y. Zenitani (Panasonic, JP)

Session 1: PCC-based materials properties and innovation
Keynote 5:  "Novel Li-based proton conductors"- Prof. S.W. Tao (Univ. Strathclyde, UK)

  • Material development and properties: electrolyte /electrodes / sealing/ current collectors/interconnects
  • Techniques and data interpretation, in operando techniques
  • Innovative synthesis
  • Sintering aid
  • Grain boundaries resistance study

Session 2: PCC-based system manufacturing: strategies of scaling-up and innovation
Keynote 6: "Protonic Ceramic cell: nanostructuration and tailoring processing" - Prof. E. Traversa (KAUST, SA): invited speaker

  • Thin film techniques
  • Metal supported routes
  • Designed layer structure
  • Large size cell, Small Repeat Unit and stack architecture configuration (planar/tubular)
  • System Modeling

Session 3: PCC-based system performance and reliability: where we are?
Keynote 7:  "Nanostructured Membrane reactors for methane conversion and hydrogen production" - Prof. S. Liu (Univ. Curtin, AUS): invited speaker

  • Fuel Cell application
  • Hydrogen/syngas production application
  • Hydrogen separation application
  • Ammonia synthesis application
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