INL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Hydrogen Separation Materials Coatings

Corrosion

Fracture and Mechanical Testing

High Temperature Mechanical 

Properties

Hydrogen Production and Storage 

Materials

Hydrogen Separation Materials

Irradiation

Materials Validation

Microstructure and Physical Properties

Modeling

Neutron Radiography

Nondestructive Evaluation

Post-irradiation Examination

Synthesis and Processing of Novel 

Materials

Welding and Joining

X-Ray Radiography

Capabilities/Facilities

Polymer synthesis and 

characterization 

laboratories, membrane 

formation, gas and liquid 

membrane permeability testing, chemical synthesis and 

catalysis, and computational 

modeling. 

Materials

Polymer membranes, polymer-ceramic composite membranes, perovskites, zirconia, 

NASICON and ceria.

Scientific/Engineering 

Issues

Membrane utility/durability, molecular design, 

mechanisms of selective mass 

transport, polymer membrane 

degradation, defect chemistry 

and ionic conductivity.

Staff

F.F. Stewart, E.S. Peterson, 

M.T. Benson, M.K. Harrup, 

T.P. OʼHolleran, and 

J.-F. Jue.

Recent Projects

• “Energy Saving Separations Technologies for the 

Petroleum Industry: An Industry-University-National 

Laboratory Partnership,” 

DOE Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy, $250K/year

• “Hydrogen Gas Getters,” 

DOE Office of Environmental Management, 

$200K/year

• “Membrane Separations 

for Industrial Waste Water,” DOE Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy, $100K/year

• “Thermally Optimized 

Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Separations,” DOE 

Office of Fossil Energy, 

$700K/year

Collaborations

• INL/Los Alamos National 

Laboratory/Pall Corp., 

“Thermally Optimized 

Membranes for Carbon 

Dioxide Separations”

• INL/Colorado School 

of Mines/BP Aromatics, 

“Energy Saving Separations Technologies for the 

Petroleum Industry: An Industry-University-National 

Laboratory Partnership”

• Manuela Serban and 

Michele Lewis (Argonne 

National Laboratory-East), 

Brenden Boyle (University 

of Pennsylvania)

Publications

“Energy Saving Separations 

Technologies for the Petroleum Industry: An IndustryUniversity-National Laboratory Research Partnership,” 

Bright-field TEM micrograph of a multiple coating of nanocrystalline 

ion-conducting ceramic film on silicon substrate.

Epoxy

Coating

Silicon

100 nm

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For more information

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national laboratory operated by 

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Richard N. Wright, Ph.D.

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J.R. Dorgan, F.F. Stewart 

and J.D. Way, Technical 

Report DOE/ID-13998-final, 

March 28, 2003.

“Density Functional Investigation of Melamine-Formaldehyde Crosslinking Agents 

– Part 1: Partially Substituted 

Melamine,” M.T. Benson, 

Industrial & Engineering 

Chemistry Research, Vol. 42, 

p. 4147, 2003.

“Characterization of Gas 

Transport in Selected Rubbery 

Amorphous Polyphosphazene 

Membranes,” C.J. Orme, 

M.K. Harrup, T.A. Luther, 

www.inl.gov/envenergyscience/materials

R.P. Lash, K.S. Houston, 

D.H. Weinkauf and F.F. Stewart, Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 186, p. 249, 2001.

“Synthesis of Nanocrystalline NASICON-type Thin 

Film Ceramics”, P.A. Lessing 

and G. Huestis, Accepted by 

Journal of Ceramic Processing Research.

“Low Temperature Hydrogen 

Transport Using a Palladium/ 

Copper Membrane”, P.A. 

Lessing, H.C. Wood, and 

L.D. Zuck, Journal of Materials Science, 38, p. 2401-2408, 

2003.

TEM micrograph of a ceramic thin-film (~80 nm) coating on a silicon substrate. A selected area diffraction 

ring pattern is shown at the upper left.

Epoxy

Coating

Silicon

50 nm