The centre is devoted to development of novel proton conductors and associated materials for sustainable energy technologies, i.e. fuel cells and electrolysers for operation in a temperature range of 200-400°C

Goal of the Centre

The growing implementation of renewable energy sources needs conversion of energy, e.g. from electricity to fuel and from fuel to electricity. This can be done by means of electrolyzers and fuel cells. The centre aims at development of novel materials for a new generation of the technologies. The key material is proton conductors that are operational in a temperature range of 200-400°C. In this temperature range, kinetics for chemical and electrochemical conversion of renewable energy carriers such as methanol, ethanol, dimethyl ether and other biofuels will be much faster with a wide selection of other construction materials including potentially non-noble metal catalysts. The latter is also a focus of the centre research.

The centre is funded by the  Danish National Research Foundation as part of their Danish-Chinese research centre program   Our Chinese collaborator at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)