Media release from Paul Scherrer Institut, 16 June 2014
Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have succeeded in imaging the distribution of frozen and liquid water in a hydrogen fuel cell directly for the first time. They applied a new imaging technique that uses successively two beams with different neutron energies to distinguish between areas with liquid water and those with ice extremely reliably. The method therefore opens up the prospect of studying one of the main problems of using fuel cells to power vehicles: ice can clog the pores in the fuel cells and affect their performance. The PSI scientists’ results will be published in the journal Physical Review Letters on 16 June 2014. Read more >>
[Français] Première: visualiser la glace dans les piles à combustible >>
[Deutsch] Eis in Brennstoffzellen erstmals direkt sichtbar gemacht >>
See also in this website the case study: Using neutrons to make pictures
