| Sunday Night | Modelling Overview - PEM Fuel Cell System Development Issues |
7:30 "Combined Consequences of Operating PEFCs on Diluted Hydrogen at High Utilization and in the Presence of Low Levels of CO", Shimshon Gottesfeld - Los Alamos National Labs
8:30 "Fuel Processor Development Issues", Shabbir Ahmed - Argonne National Labs
| Monday Morning | Catalysis - Chemistry of H, 0 and CO on Noble Metal Surfaces |
9:00 "Modeling Heterogeneous Catalysts: Metal Clusters on Planar Oxide Supports", Wayne
Goodman - Texas A&M University
10:00 "Chemistry of H, 0, and CO on Heterogeneous Noble Metal Surfaces", R. Juergen Behm -
Universitat Ulm
11:00 Photo session/break
11:30 "Chemistry of H, 0, and CO on Electrochemical Noble Metal Surfaces", Nenad Markovic -
Lawrence Berkeley Labs
| Monday Evening | Cathode Electrocatalysis - The Problem of Oxygen Activation |
7:30 "Research Issues in Oxygen Activation", John Appleby - Texas A&M University
8:30 "Particle Size Effects for PEM Fuel Cell Catalysts", Robert Durand - I.NT.P. Grenoble/CNRS, France
| Tuesday Morning | Anode Electrocatalysis - CO Tolerance |
9:00 "Theoretical Modeling of Anode Electrocatalysis: from Quantum Chemistry to Monte Carlo
Simulations", Mark Koper - Eindhoven University of Technology
10:00 "Approaches to Reformate Tolerance in PEMFCs using Catalyst Technology", David Thompsett - Johnson Matthey, UK
10:40 Break
11:00 "Effects of Electronic Structure of Skin-Layer of Anode Electrocatalysts on the Mechanisms of
CO-Tolerance and Methanol Oxidation", Masahiro Watanabe - Yamanashi University, Japan
11:50 "How to make electrocatalysts more active for direct methanol oxidation--avoid Pt-Ru bimetallic alloys!!", Debra Rolison - Naval Research Laboratory
| Tuesday Evening | Electrocatalysis in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells |
7:30 "Kinetics of Methanol Electrocatalysis from Catalytic Viewpoinf', Eric Stuve - University of
Washington
8:10 "Anomalous Oxides for Electro-oxidation of MeOH Molecules," Lawrence Burke - University College Cork, Ireland
8:50 "Methanol Tolerant Oxygen Reduction Catalysts Based on Transition Metal Sulfides and Their Application to the Study of Methanol Permeation", Paul Christensen - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
| Wednesday Morning | Improved Membrane Electrode Assembly Performance |
9:00 "It's a Whole New Ballgame: Implications of Properties of Next Generation Proton Conducting
Materials for their Use in Membrane Electrode Assemblies",
Thomas Zawodzinski - Los Alamos National Labs
10:00 "Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for High Temperature Fuel Cells", Morton Litt - Case Western Reserve University
11:00 Break/ Nomination of Future Chairman
11:30 "Solid Acids: Alternative Electrolytes for Hydrogen Air and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells", Sossina Haile - California Institute of Technology
| Wednesday Evening | Related Low Temperature Fuel Cell Research Issues |
7:30 "Comprehensive Treatise on Gas Diffusion Electrodes 1838-1950" Werner Schnumberger -
German Aerospace Center
8:00 "Research Issues in Alkaline Fuel Cells", Patrick Grimes - P. Grimes Assoc.
8:45 "Research Issues in Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cells", Doug Wheeler - International Fuel Cells
| Thursday Morning | Fuel Processor Development |
9:00 "Intrinsic Kinetics in the Presence of Irreducible Transport Phenomena: The Partial Oxidation of
Methane", Guy Marin - Laborariurn voor Petrochernische Techniek, Belgium
10:00 "Pt/Ceria Water Gas Shift Catalysts for Automotive Fuel Processors", Scott Swartz - Nextech Materials
11:00 Break
11:30 "Transient Carbon Monoxide Control - PROX Reactor Strategies", Nick Vanderborgh - formerly Los Alamos National Labs
| Thursday Evening | System Development Issue in Fuel Cells |
7:00 "Fuel Cell Systems for Transportation and Stationary Applications", Glenn Scheffler -
International Fuel Cells
8:00 "Portable PEM Fuel Cell Systems", Mahlon Wilson - Los Alamos National Labs
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