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Vilayanur Viswanathan

Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Projects

MRI for Understanding Water Management in PEM Fuel Cells

Lead Institution
Brown University
Principal Investigator
Li-Qiong Wang
Project type
Capability Research
Real-time, 3-dimensional analysis methods are currently needed to probe polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell performance and degradation. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has tremendous…

Atomic force microscope studies of environmental sensitive polymer

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liang Liang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Polymers have been applied successfully in fields such as adhesion, biomaterails, protective coating, friction and wear, composites, microelectronics devices, and thin-film technology. In general,…

Imaging Of Water and Gas Distribution in PEM Fuel Cell Stacks and Cells

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Kevin Minard
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The overall objective of this project is to develop three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for in-situ, real-time monitoring of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell…