Dr. Haiyan Wang Discusses Fuel Cell Work

Dr. Haiyan Wang, an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, discusses current projects, including work on solid oxide fuel cells.

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00:00:02 My name is Haiyan Wang. I am an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and I am also a joint faculty of material science and engineering program. The work we are working on, let’s use the example, is high-temperature superconductors, coated contacts. Basically we coat high-temperature superconductor material onto a metal substrate which is flexible so that you can use that as cables for transmission lines. Or even make generators or motors for future military application or even for conventional applications. Those are invasion applications for thin-film coated conductors.

00:00:45 Another aspect we are working on in the group is called thin-film solid oxide fuel cells. Those fuel cells are completely made up of oxide layers, layer by layer, both cathode electrolyte and anode structure, all made up of thin-film structure in one single step. This is a competing technology compared to bulk-solid oxide fuel cells. We expect this fuel cell will have lighter and higher power and possibly even integrated into your personal devices in the future. So it has a very large application as a power supply.