Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells

Dr. Abu Yousuf is a Research Associate in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, in the United States. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. His primary research interests include renewable energy, biorefinery, energy storage and waste-to-energy, and he is currently working with protonic ceramic fuel cells at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Yousuf has published over 65 papers in reputed ISI and Scopus-indexed journals, 19 conference papers and 15 book chapters, and is the Editor of 5 books, as well as serving as an editorial board member for several reputed journals. He received the Dean’s Award from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2019 and 2021, for his research, and won the ‘International invention of the year award’ at the British Invention Show, London, UK in 2017, for his work on Hybrid Energy Generation for Highway Lighting Systems.

Dr. Pejman Kazempoor is an Assistant Professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at University of Oklahoma, in the United States. His research interests include sustainable energy technologies, greenhouse gas management, carbon capture and utilization, energy storage, electrochemical energy systems (fuel cells and batteries), and process design and modeling. Dr. Kazempoor has received several awards for his research, including the Baker Hughes a GE Company (BHGE) 2018 Technology Excellence Award, Bursary Award - Fuel Cell Advance Conference (Groove Symposium), and two best paper awards at the 5th Conference on Internal Combustion Engine (ICMEAT) in 2012. He is leading a number of projects on energy storage, fuel cells and carbon emission reduction, and also holds editorial roles with several reputed journals.

Dr. Chuancheng Duan is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, United States, and is a prominent researcher in the field of chemical engineering. Dr. Duan's research focuses on the development of new materials and processes for energy conversion and storage, with a particular emphasis on solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and protonic ceramic fuel cells (PCFCs). He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and is a highly cited researcher in the field of SOFC and PCFC research. He has been honored with the 2017 Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society, the 2022 Materials Today Energy Rising Star Award, the Rath Research Award for the Ph.D. dissertation demonstrating the greatest potential societal impact, and the 2017 Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) award, also from the American Ceramic Society.

Dr. Dong Ding is a distinguished staff engineer/scientist at Idaho National Laboratory, leading the electrochemical processing and electrocatalysis (EPEC) team consisting of >20 researchers. Dr. Ding is a technical lead and steering committee member for two hydrogen related consortia: HydroGEN of Energy Materials Network (EMN) and H2NEW under the U.S. DOE-Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)-Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Office. Dr. Ding is an executive committee member, secretary/treasurer for High-Temperature Energy, Materials, and Processes (H-TEMP) Division of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He was the recipient for several prestigious awards including the Lab Director Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award, and the Asian American Most Promising Engineer. Dr. Ding received his doctorate in material science at the University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), where he also earned a bachelor’s in materials chemistry. Dr. Ding co-authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications and a book chapter. He also holds >30 patents and patent applications. Dr. Ding’s current research interests relate to INL’s two mission initiatives: advanced design and manufacturing (ADM) and integrated energy systems (IES), including high temperature water electrolysis, natural gas upgrading, advanced manufacturing of solid oxide cells/stacks, CO₂ capture and conversion, ammonia electrosynthesis, fuel cells, and electrocatalysis.