CNRS, France

The laboratory "Aggregates, Interfaces and Materials for Energy" (http://www.aime.icgm.fr/), led by Jerzy Jazac, Professor at Université de Montpellier (UM) belongs to the Department Solid-State Chemistry and Divided Matter (led by Dr Deborah Jones, full senior research scientist at CNRS) within the Institute Charles Gerhardt, a CNRS-UM joint research unit, labelled as a Carnot Institute by the French Ministry of Research in recognition of its very high level of collaborative research with industry. Its fuel cells and hydrogen research programme has been developed over the past 25 years and the Fuel Cells group currently comprises 9 staff members and 10 post-docs and doctoral students. It has a strong international reputation for its contributions to the field of proton conducting membrane development, modification and characterisation, and has pioneered development of polymer membrane materials for use in the intermediate and high temperature ranges and, more recently, on corrosion-resistant supports with novel architectures and on non-PGM ORR catalysts.
CNRS coordinates the project, contributes to WP3 with PGM-free catalysts for oxygen reduction and ultralow-PGM catalysts for hydrogen oxidation, to WP4 with the preparation of bipolar membranes and to WP5 with the assembly and cell testing of polymer-electrolyte fuel cells