Membraneless fuel cell is tiny, versatile

James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor

3/15/2005

The system designed by Paul Kenis, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, uses a Y-shaped microfluidic channel in which two liquid streams containing fuel and oxidant merge and flow between catalyst-covered electrodes without mixing.

E.R. Choban, L.J. Markoski, A. Wieckowski, and P.J.A. Kenis:

Microfluidic Fuel Cell based on Laminar Flow Journal of Power Sources, 2004

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students Lindsay Bitner-Mitchell and Cecelia Escobar have been selected to participate in the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission’s Summer Institutes program. Photo collage: Fred Zwicky

Two Illinois students selected for Fulbright’s Summer Institute to the UK

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