Nagesh Idupulapati

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Projects

Charge Transfer, Transport, and Reactivity in Complex Molecular Environments

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Ram Devanathan

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Proton transport in polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) for fuel cells is of fundamental scientific interest and holds practical importance, because of the efficient conversion of fuel chemical…

Modeling of polymer membrane nanostructure and its effect on proton and small molecule transport

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Ram Devanathan

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells are a crucial part of the hydrogen economy. A barrier to their commercial viability is the lack of fundamental molecular-level understanding of membrane…