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Affiliated with the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy

Mission & Overview:

Mission:

To develop new materials for future energy technologies by conducting funded and undergraduate research including:

Hydrogen Storage
Batteries
Fuel Cells

The Basics of Energy Research:

What is a fuel cell?

A fuel cell is a device that generates electricity by a chemical reaction. Every fuel cell has two electrodes, one positive and one negative, called, respectively, the cathode and anode. The reactions that produce electricity take place at the electrodes.

Every fuel cell also has an electrolyte, which carries electrically charged particles from one electrode to the other, and a catalyst, which speeds the reactions at the electrodes.

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