A nice holiday photo or the return voucher for an unsuitable dress from an online shop is something you like to quickly print at home with an inkjet printer. In collaboration with the TU Chemnitz, we used this technique to print cathode catalyst layers for PEM fuel cells directly onto a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM).
A good example of the successful (long-standing) cooperation between the Institute for Product Engineering (IPE) of the University of Duisburg-Essen and the ZBT can be seen in the R&D project “Thermally conductive plastic pipes”.
Within the BMWi project "InduRex", ZBT produced bipolar plate foils based on graphite-compounds and successfully demonstrated their stability in fuel cell operation for the first time.
Im Projekt Trans4ReaL begleitet ZBT die "Reallabore der Energiewende" des BMWi (gemeinsam mit FFE, Dechema, Agora Energiewende, WWU, TUM, Stiftung Energie und Umweltrecht) mit umfassenden systemischen technischen vergleichenden Analysen und der Analyse und Entwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen.
The IGF project "FC-Flex²" investigated the tool-free manufacturing of a foil-based bipolar plate. The aim of this research project was to build functional bipolar plates layer by layer from a composite of several (graphite and metal) foils with varying structures.
