Students and Projects In 'Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)' Fuel Cells and Their FuelsResearchManagement structureStudent experienceApply hereStudents and ProjectsPublicationsContact Back to 'Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research' Completing 2017 Fatima Zia - Nanotoxicological Properties of Fuel Cell Emissions Sandy Lamond - Techno-Economic analysis of a Microbial Fuel Cell driven anaerobic digestion process Sean Goodwin - Developing new catalysts for protic ionic liquid fuel cells following research of the mechanism of the oxygen reduction reaction Andrew McInnes - Photoelectrochemical generation of hydrogen Ben Davies - Enhancing Fuel Cell Lifetime Performance through Effective Health Monitoring and Decision Support Hal Robbs - Developing novel surface engineered catalysts for PEFCs and DMFCs Sophie Alice Archer - Applications of Life Cycle Methodology to Hydrogen from Biomass Miguel Angel Molina Garcia - Non-precious-metal catalysts for Alkaline Polymeric Membrane Fuel Cells (APMFC) Completing 2018 Thomas Heenan - Microstructural Causes and effects of thermally driven degradation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Laura Allerston - Applied and fundamental understanding of novel non platinum fuel cell catalysts in collaboration with Amalyst Daniel Escalera López - Size-selected atomic clusters for electrocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis Aimee Jackson - Manganese oxide-Graphene oxide hybrid support systems for DMFC (and PEMFC) applications Jake Walls - Photocatalytic production of Ammonia for use in a direct ammonia fuel cell Lois Milner - High temperature gas characterisation applied for catalyst development and to provide on-board diagnostics for fuel cells operating on reformed methane James Walker - Investigation of Binary and Ternary Catalysts to Create Low-Cost, High Performance Electrocatalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Daniel Smith - Ionic Liquid Fuel Composition Fuel Cells for Intermediate PEM Completing 2019 Melissa Oum - Modelling Microstructural and Chemical Degradation of Protective Coatings for SOFC Interconnects Oujen Hodjati-Pugh - 3D Multiphysics Modelling and Experimental Validation of Microtubular Solid Oxide Fuel Stacks with novel Interconnection. Ashkan Kavei - Development of a Segmented Fuel Cell-Supercapacitor Passive Hybrid System Derek Low - The Impact of Environmental Conditions on Fuel Cell Performance Peter Mardle - An investigation of in-situ grown NiPt nanowires for PEFC applications Alan Stephen - R. Sphaeroides for Biohydrogen production and Fuel Cell Catalysts Graham Stevenson - Design and Microstructural Control of All-Ceramic Anodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells Diana Mehta - Removal of carbon dioxide from biogas for hydrogen production Sharleigh Talbot - The photocatalytic production of hydrogen from contaminated water in a microfluidic system Completing 2020 Alex Thirkell - Fuel Cell Powered Aircraft Beatrice Sampson - The added value of hydrogen and fuel cells Rhiannon Dixon - Investigating the Use of Noval Dopants for SOFC Anodes to Improve Tolerances to Sulfur and Carbon Sam Eadley - Optimisation of conditions and material properties to maximise the efficiency of interface ion exchange within PEMFC Oliver Fernihough - CCM's (catalyst coated membranes) with textured membranes and stack development Marcus Adams - Improved solid state storage efficiency through design Alexandros Symillidis - Developing Next Generation Direct Fuel Cell Systems using Liquid Fuels for Building and Automotive Applications Completing 2021 Abigail Snowdon - Optimising Reversible Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (rSOC) to reduce degradation during methane-assisted co-electrolysis. Matthew Bird - The use of perovskite materials (ABO3) as catalysts for the oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions in water splitting Christopher Harrison - Material performance of hydrogen fuel cells Ahmed Ibrahim - Testing filler materials within membranes of an intermediate temperature fuel cell George Wilson - Water Splitting via Thermochemical Redox Reactions Leon Ford - The role of structural disorder in perovskite materials and how this affects the transport properties Naseruddin Khan - Zero-emission energy cycle through fuel cell hybrid vehicles with efficient energy storage system applications Zahra Rana - New directions for catalysts in PEMFC systems Liam Cooper - Coating materials for bipolar plates in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) Brian Wong - Predictive Control and Health Management of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Completing 2022 James Felton - Use of layered Van der Waals crystals for use in hydrogen generation and storage John Gordon - Solutions for controlling the amount of NOx emissions produced during the combustion process of hydrogen Jack Hart - Using NAP-XPS to research surfaces that can perform direct photocatalytic water splitting, with a focus on solid-state materials Abdul Hye - Low and high temperature fuel cell system integration with electric vehicles Hanlin Li - Safety Issues Relating to Fuel Cell Technologies Donald Inns - Renewable hydrogen production from aqueous waste Robert Mather - Development of Hybrid Fuel Cell / Li-ion Systems Sweta Munshi - TBC Abiola Oladeji - Fabrication of multi-metallic catalysts from low concentrations of critical metals using impact electrodeposition Pushpa Patel - Evaluation of the effect of proton exchange membrane fuel cell nanocatalysts on membrane proteins Marco Pignataro - Phase change material based emulsions for thermal management applications Samuel Sogbesan - Life cycle analysis and synthesis of renewable transport fuels Marcus Taylor - Multi-scale system modelling of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electric vehicle powertrain James Wakerley - Development of machine learning models trained to experimental results or DFT calculated data Xihao Chen - TBC