Marco Bianchini

IREC Catalonia Institute for Energy Research | IREC · Department of Advanced Materials for Energy

Entering a new era of sustainable energy generation and consumption, micro-fuel cells are showing great potential for providing high energy density to consumer electronics, and micro-reactor technology can indeed enable their integration by providing hydrogen on-demand from hydrocarbons. In this work, we present the design and fully scalable wafer-...

Sodium layered oxide materials show excellent performance as cathodes in sodium ion batteries, leading to considerable interest in routes to improving their properties. A manganese-rich P2/O3-phase Na2/3Li0.18Mn0.8Fe0.2O2 material is synthesized, from earth abundant precursors, via a solid state-reaction. Its biphasic nature is confirmed by X-ray d...

Entering a new era of sustainable energy generation and consumption, new solutions for powering consumer electronics are required to tackle the limited capacity provided by the portable power sources employed nowadays. Hydrocarbon-fed micro-fuel cells represent a promising technology for this purpose, and micro-reactor technology can indeed enable...

This work reports the design, manufacturing and catalytic activity characterization of a micro-reformer for hydrogen-rich gas generation integrated in portable-solid oxide fuel cells (μ-SOFCs). The reformer has been designed as a silicon micro monolithic substrate compatible with the mainstream microelectronics fabrication technologies ensuring a c...