WFCC 2020 Plenary Speakers

Michael D. Guiver.jpg

Michael D. Guiver

Tianjin University

State Key Laboratory of Engines, Tianjin University

92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, 300072 P.R. China

Email: Michael.guiver@outlook.com

Guiver@tju.edu.cn

Mobile phone and WeChat: (+86) 158 22869113

Presentation Title

Innovations in Fuel Cell Membranes

Abstract

Recently, we reported proton exchange membranes with proton channels running ‘through-plane’, which provide high proton conduction [Nat. Commun. 10 (2019) 842; Energy Environ. Sci. 13 (2020) 297-309]. The membrane channels exhibit microporosity, enabling them to retain water at elevated temperatures, allowing good PEMFC performance under conditions of low humidity and elevated temperature. We observed that the membranes exhibited unusually good stability under adverse environmental conditions as well as stable PEMFC performance. Developing this aspect further, we are now exploring practical and simple ways to stabilize PEMs, both perfluorocarbon and hydrocarbon-based. Currently, we are designing AEMs with aligned hydroxide-conducting channels, which appear to be robust and have promising properties.

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Michael Guiver obtained his BSc (London University) and MSc (Carleton University) in Chemistry, and his PhD in Polymer Chemistry from Carleton University in 1988. He has been an Editor for the Journal of Membrane Science since 2009. He previously served on ACS Editorial Boards, and is currently a member on the International Advisory Board of Macromolecular Research and on the Editorial Board of Polymers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an ACS Poly Fellow. He spent most of his career at the National Research Council Canada, and left in 2014 as a principal researcher. In 2009-2013, he was a ‘World Class University’ visiting professor at the Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Korea. In September 2014, he relocated to Tianjin University, China as a full-time National 1000-plan Foreign Expert Professor. His primary expertise is in polymer chemistry and design and his research interests are in polymeric membrane gas separations and ion-conducting membranes for fuel cells. Currently, he is working on proton exchange membranes and anion exchange membranes with aligned conducting channels, and also investigating stabilizing hydrocarbon-based membranes allowing their practical commercial use.