University of Queensland teams up with Chinese Academy of Sciences for Fuel Cell R&D

The University of Queensland will lead a large-scale Australia-China partnership on clean energy technologies, targeting clean coal, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen production and energy storage.

Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, cleared the way for the $3.9 million research partnership by announcing $1.95 million from the National and International Research Alliances Program

The R&D will look at developing cost effective technologies for alternative liquid fuels as well as technologies from solar and clean coal processes that will enable hydrogen production; and materials for storing electricity and hydrogen for the new generation of hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles.

All Queensland researchers are associated with the UQ-based Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Funtional Nanomaterials and are led by Professor Max Lu, a two-time ARC Federation Fellow.

The Chinese experts are from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and Institute of Metals Research.

Source: Fuel Cell Today