Fuel Cells

A research team led by Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Vanderbilt University, has made a breakthrough advance for clean energy. By incorporating an atomically thin layer of graphene, the team has developed a way to improve fuel cell efficiency without sacrificing performance—solving a long-standing… Read More

Piran Kidambi, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is one of three recipients of an Electrochemical Society Toyota 2020-21 Young Investigator Fellowship awarded for projects in green energy technology. The fellowship is a partnership between the ECS and Toyota Research Institute of North America, a division of Toyota… Read More

Nanofiber mat electrode (John Russell / Vanderbilt) At the same time Honda and Toyota are introducing fuel cell cars to the U.S. market, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University, Nissan North America and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to create a new technology designed… Read More

The technique, which was developed by Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Rizia Bardhan, is described in a paper published online Aug. 4 by the journal Nature Materials. In the last 30 years, there has been a tremendous amount of research studying nanocrystals – tiny crystals sized… Read More