PLENARY LECTURE SESSION I

James E. McGrath, Discussion Leader

2:00 p.m.

Opening Remarks, Jim McGrath and Tom Zawodzinski

2:15 p.m.

Nancy Garland, U.S. Department of Energy

DOE View of Advanced Materials for PEMFC

3:00 p.m.

Seizo Miyata, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan

Fuel Cell Projects in Japan and Their Highlights for PEMFCs

3:45 p.m.

Ken Reifsnider, University of Connecticut

Foundations for Durability of Ionomer Membranes and Membrane Electrode Assemblies

5:00 p.m.

WELCOMING RECEPTION

6:00 p.m.

DINNER

PLENARY LECTURE SESSION II

Steve Hamrock, 3M, Discussion Leader

7:30 p.m.

Joseph DeSimone, UNC Chapel Hill

Curable, 100% Solids Liquid Precursors to Patterned PEMs

8:15 p.m.

Deborah Jones, University of Montpellier, France

Proton Exchange Membranes for High Temperature Fuel Cells

9:00 p.m.

James E. McGrath, Virginia Tech

Aromatic Ionomer Proton Exchange Membrane Systems

PLENARY LECTURE SESSION III

Jay Sayre, Battelle, Discussion Leader

8:30 a.m.

Klaus-Dieter Kreuer, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany

Exploring the Limits of Sulfonic Acid Based Proton Conducting Membranes

9:15 a.m.

Silvia Licoccia, University of Rome

Strategies to Increase the Operating Temperature of PEMFCs: From Nanocomposites to Hybrid Electrolytes

9:45 a.m.

David Wesolowski, Oak Ridge National Labs

Stability, Solubility and Surface Chemistry of Inorganic Solid Phases Under PEMFC Operating Conditions

10:15 a.m.

BREAK

10:30 a.m.

Hossein Ghassemi & Tom Zawodzinski, Case Western Reserve University

Challenges in Developing High Temperature Proton Exchange Membranes

11:00 a.m.

W.S. Winston Ho, Ohio State University

Synthesis and Characterization of Sulfonated Polyimides and Copolymers as Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells

11:30 a.m.

Richard Pollard and Qunhui Guo, Plug Power

Membrane-Material Interactions in Fuel Cell Systems

12:00 p.m.

LUNCH

PLENARY LECTURE SESSION IV

Bhima Vijayendran, Battelle, Discussion Leader

2:00 p.m.

Meilin Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Heterocycles-Based Proton Exchange Membranes

2:30 p.m.

Yu Seung Kim and Bryan Pivovar, Los Alamos National Labs

Performance and Durability of Sulfonated Poly(Ayrlene Ether) Membranes

3:00 p.m.

Michel Foure, Arkema Group

Polyvinylidene Fluoride Based Membranes

3:30 p.m.

BREAK

3:45 p.m.

Régis Mercier, CNRS, France

Ionic Membranes Based on Sulfonated Polybenzimidazoles

4:15 p.m.

Tom Zawodzinski, Case Western Reserve University

Polymer Electrolytes In Electrodes

4:45 p.m.

Mike T. Hicks, Fuel Cell Components Program, 3M Center

3Ms MEA Lifetime Modeling.

6:00 p.m.

DINNER

7:30 p.m.

POSTER SESSION I – Submit poster abstracts to Lesia Linkous, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry by January 8, 2007 (lesiar@vt.edu)

PLENARY LECTURE SESSION V

Bryan Pivovar, LANL, Discussion Leader

8:30 a.m.

Giulio Alberti, University of Perugia, Italy

Water-Uptake of Pure and Composite-Nafion Membranes and Relations  with Temperature, Relative Humidity, Conformation Memory, Elastic Modulus and Instability Maps of Proton Conductivity

9:15 a.m.

Ken Wynne, Virginia Commonwealth University

Thermal Stability in Air of Pt/C Catalysts and PEM Catalyst Layers

10:00 a.m.

BREAK

10:15 a.m.

Sung Chul Kim, KAIST, Korea

Polymer Blend Membranes for the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell

10:45 a.m.

Kenneth Wagener, University of Florida

A Study of Morphological Precision in Free Acid & Ionomer Polymers

11:15 a.m.

Brian Benicewicz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Advances in PBI Membrane Materials

12:00 p.m.

LUNCH

PLENARY LECTURE SESSION VI

Tom Zawodzinski, CWRU, Discussion Leader

2:00 p.m.

Yossef A. (Joe) Elabd, Drexel University

Methanol Crossover: New Insights and Experimental Techniques

2:30 p.m.

Rod Borup, Los Alamos National Labs

PEM Fuel Cell Durability Issues for Transportation

3:00 p.m.

BREAK

3:15 p.m.

Don Baird, Virginia Tech

Polymer Composite Bipolar Plates

3:45 p.m.

Thomas Willis, Precision Energy and Technology LLC

Commercial Aspects of PEM Fuel Cells

4:15 p.m.

Robert Moore, University of Southern Mississippi

Probing the Glass Transition and Chain Dynamics in Perfluorosulfonate Ionomer Membranes

6:00 p.m.

DINNER

7:30 p.m.

POSTER SESSION I – Submit poster abstracts to Lesia Linkous, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry by January 8, 2007 (lesiar@vt.edu)

PLENARY LECTURE SESSION VII

Don Baird, Virginia Tech, Discussion Leader

8:30 a.m.

 Bernd Bauer,  FuMA-Tech GmbH

New Membrane Systems

9:15 a.m.

M. Pinéri, O. Diat, G. Gebel, CEA Grenoble, France

Experimental µ X Ray Diffraction Evidence of Membrane Water Desorption and Crystallization Inside Active Layers During Below O°C Cooling of MEA

9:45 a.m.

BREAK

10:00 a.m.

Jim Fenton, Florida Solar Energy Center, and Dept. of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida

Durability and Degradation of Nafion and Nafion Composite Membranes in Working PEM Fuel Cells

10:30 a.m.

Emil Roduner, Stuttgart University, Germany

"Ex-situ and in-situ Studies of Fuel Cell Membrane Degradation Using ESR Spectroscopy"

11:00 a.m.

Andy Herring, Colorado School of Mines

Fundamental Studies of Composite Inorganic/PFSA Membranes for Fuel Cell operation

11:30 a.m.

Ken Mauritz, University of Southern Mississippi

Dielectric Spectroscopy as a Probe of Molecular Motions in, and Chemical
Degradation of Nafion and Hydrocarbon Fuel Cell Membranes

12:00 p.m.

Jung-Ki Park, KAIST, Korea

New MEA based on Hydrocarbon Membrane with High Interfacial Stability

12:30 p.m.

James E. McGrath and Tom Zawodzinski

Closing Remarks