Seeking new materials for structural components in fuel cells
Raúl Gago Fernández (Surface Engineering and Advanced Coatings Group, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) There is no need to stress the actual urgency for the development of new power sources. Among the different approaches, fuel cells are already known from the 19th century but they are becoming more and more attractive. Basically, fuel cells are devices that generate electricity by a chemical reaction between protons (positively charged hydrogen ions) and oxygen or another…