NIST Awards Grant for Nanotube Research

Fuel Cells Today, Oct 4, 2004

Motorola recently announced that it, in conjunction with Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc. and Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells, Inc., has been awarded a $3.6-million grant by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop "free standing" carbon nanotube electrodes for micro-fuel cells.

According to Motorola, the grant, which was awarded under the NIST Advanced Technology Program, supports a three-year, $7.4-million project to utilize the properties of single wall carbon-nanotubes (SWNT) to enhance fuel cell performance, durability and manufacturability.

"It is a privilege to be associated with such great technology-focused companies in this project and we are pleased that NIST sees the merit and the potential in this technology," said Carbon Nanotechnologies chairman and co-founder Richard Smalley. "Single wall carbon-nanotubes will enable many new products and I believe that fuel cell development will be an early beneficiary of their powerful properties."

Contact: Juli Burda, Motorola, phone 847-538-5625, e-mail juli.burda@motorola.com.

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