Fuel Cells in 2006

✍ Scribed by Ulrich Stimming; Björn Franke

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 294 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1615-6846
• DOI: 10.1002/fuce.200790001

✦ Synopsis

Nicolaos Bonanos presented selected articles of the 6 th European SOFC Forum Lucerne 2004, followed by a double issue on Novel Layer Structures for Fuel Cells -guest-edited by Franziska Jäger -containing concluding results from the Priority Program 1060 of the German Science Foundation (DFG). A Special Issue on the 3 rd Sino-German Workshop on Fuel Cells 2005 that was edited by Jürgen Garche, Gongquan Sun and Xinjian Zhu, concluded the publishing year 2006.We would like to thank all guest editors for their excellent work and dedication in their work on the 2006 Special Issues.

In the development of fuel cells and fuel-cell materials there is an obvious trend to reduce the operating temperature for SOFC and raise the operating temperature for PEMFC. The two communities are moving towards each other, also in terms of concepts being pursued. The future of fuel-cell development may bring concepts based on inorganic materials accessing the temperature range 200 to 400 °C.

Along with an increase in the annual publication frequency from 4 to 6 issues in 2006, 35% more articles were published as compared to 2005. Not only has the number of published articles increased, but also have more and more contributions been accessed online on the Fuel Cells homepage in Wiley InterScience (www.fuelcells.wiley-vch.de): In 2006, the total number of full-text downloads to the PDF ver-