Title: Carbon Negative: A University-Industry Seminar Series

Industry sector: Education/Research

The way to a carbon negative future follows a path of research, discovery, translation and commercialization. The Carbon Negative series features a two-speaker panel, one from academe and one from industry, speaking about singular clean energy challenge/opportunity from the perspective of their own experiences in the lab and in the marketplace, respectively.

TIME: 4:30 to 7:00 pm

Fuel Cells: Current Product Opportunities and Emerging Technologies

Protonex CTO Paul Osenar will offer his perspective on the plentiful near-term product opportunities for fuel cells, based on currently available technologies. Dr. Osenard's talk will introduce the Protonex approach to market penetration and review some other potential bright spots for near term commercialization of fuel cells. Still more opportunities exist for next-generation fuel cells. The National Science Foundation-funded Fueling the Future Center for Chemical Innovation (FTF-CCI) is focused on enhancing the efficiency of charge transport, a crucial process in most energy devices, especially solar and fuel cells. Professor S. “Thai” Thayumanavan will discuss his work as director of the FTF-CCI at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Complete information and registration: http://www.umass.edu/green/CarbonNegative.

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