Stack development and compound technology experts Elisabeth Verweyen and Alexandros Perrakis from our Fuel Cells and Stacks department made the journey to snowy Clausthal, Germany. The Clausthaler Zentrum für Materialtechnik (Clausthal Centre for Materials Technology) had invited them to the Symposium für Materialtechnik (Symposium for Materials Technology) at Clausthal University of Technology, and they were both on the programme with interesting presentations.
Verweyen reported on the FC_Bio project and spoke about the ‘Production of electrically and thermally conductive graphitic bipolar plates from “green” raw materials using injection moulding for use in low-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells’.
And Perrakis provided information from the GRETE project on the ‘Development and optimisation of graphite polyphenylene sulphide sheets for high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and heat exchangers’.
The Materials Technology Symposium has been held every two years since 2015. What makes the conference so special is its openness to all research disciplines that are dedicated to materials technology issues – at all stages of the process chain from materials development to processing.
Finally, the two colleagues found their way out of snowy Clausthal to continue their research into bipolar and heat exchanger plates here at ZBT.
