{"id":2513,"date":"2009-05-01T21:02:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T21:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2016-06-20T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:24:43","slug":"computer-modeling-of-ionomer-membranes-under-fuel-cell-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/computer-modeling-of-ionomer-membranes-under-fuel-cell-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Modeling of Ionomer Membranes Under Fuel Cell Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">Zachary Tobin with Philip Taylor<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2009\/05\/ZacharyTobinPoster.pdf\">Computer Modeling of Ionomer Membranes Under Fuel Cell Conditions<\/a><\/h3>\n<p align=\"justify\">An ionomer membrane is the central component of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. \u00a0Its purpose is to separate reactants while only allowing one specific ion to pass through it. \u00a0In the case of a hydrogen fuel cell, the reactants are hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. \u00a0Hydrogen gas is split into its composite protons and electrons, and the protons are allowed to pass through the membrane. While there is theory for the flow of protons through the membrane, little is really known about the mechanisms at work and their relative strengths. \u00a0The goal of this project is to determine the importance of the various mechanisms at work in proton transport through the membrane. \u00a0This will be done by developing a simplified theoretical model of the forces and energies in the substructure of the membrane. \u00a0This model will then be used to run computer simulations of the membrane under conditions emulating a fuel cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Tobin with Philip Taylor<a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2009\/05\/ZacharyTobinPoster.pdf\">Computer Modeling of Ionomer Membranes Under Fuel Cell Conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">An ionomer membrane is the central component of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. \u00a0Its purpose is to separate reactants while only allowing one specific ion to pass through it. \u00a0In the case of a hydrogen fuel cell, the reactants are hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. \u00a0Hydrogen gas is split into its composite protons and electrons, and the protons are allowed to pass through the membrane. While there is theory for the flow of protons through the membrane, little is really known about the mechanisms at work and their relative strengths. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/computer-modeling-of-ionomer-membranes-under-fuel-cell-conditions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer Modeling of Ionomer Membranes Under Fuel Cell Conditions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[81,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}