Powering the Future Fuel cell research center to contribute knowledge and innovations for sustainable energy sources. The energy source that powered the Space Shuttle, Apollo, Skylab and Gemini spacecraft might one day operate your portable phone, your car and your neighborhood's electric plant.
Fuel cells are a clean, environmentally friendly, versatile, reliable and efficient power source.
The Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies will take a multidisciplinary approach to fuel cell and battery-related research, says center director Dr. David Parekh. At Georgia Tech, we have a broad range of expertise in this field. Groundbreaking research in these areas will move the world toward more sustainable energy sources. Additionally, recent research at Georgia Tech on fuel cells and related electrochemical devices has led to the invention of several processes that enable waste streams from commercial chemical manufacturing to be profitably recycled to provide fresh feed to the manufacturing plants. A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that operates much like a battery.