Teer Coatings Limited

This bilateral collaboration brings together expertise from the industrial and academic partners from the UK and Taiwan and aims to address some of the performance and cost challenges of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). High-performance, low-cost bipolar plate coatings will be developed using Teer Coatings' closed-field unbalanced magnetron s...

Hydrogen, and specifically green hydrogen can play a key role in decarbonisation, as it has the potential to be used as fuel for power and transportation. Water electrolysis, and in particular solid oxide electrolysis, is attractive due to its high energy efficiency. There are challenges related to the performance, lifetime, durability and cost of solid o...

Ammonia is the second most commonly produced industrial chemical worldwide, reaching an estimated global production of 176 megatonnes/year (2022). Approximately 80% of ammonia is used for fertiliser production, playing a critical role in increasing agricultural output and supporting the growing global population. Indeed, it is estimated that ammonia in fe...

High-performance coatings with improved corrosion resistance and conductivity will be developed, using Teer Coatings' closed-field unbalanced magnetron sputtering technology, for lightweight, aluminium and titanium bipolar plates used in proton exchange membrane fuel cell stacks, specifically designed for the aviation industry. Fuel cell test methods will...

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) display the highest power densities of any of the fuel cell types, which makes them particularly attractive for transportation & portable applications where minimum size and weight are required. Conventional PEMFCs utilise bipolar plates which are made from graphite (bulky and expensive to machine) or stainless...

To embed optical coatings expertise, particularly in plasma assisted deposition, in order to develop a new range of optical coating machines and optical coating services.

Air-cooled fuel cells are particularly suitable for lower power automotive applications such as primary and range extender drives for lightweight vehicles. Their rapid refuelling capabilities, combined with significantly reduced balance-of-plant complexity, hence minimising weight (and cost), provide a clear differentiator from pure battery-powered soluti...

Microbial and fungal growth in space environment are important challenges for the space industry. Typically, the number of microbial organisms is controlled through extreme disinfection and quarantine of astronauts but there is no established means of eliminating the organisms once in the space environment. The ANCOP project is focused on exploiting the d...

This feasibility study will assess the use of recent innovations in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to measure key properties of ultra-thin coatings of precious metals. These coatings provide critical improvements to the performance of fuel cells for cars and their development requires new measurement methods to ensure their chemistry, thickness and lack...

The NMPLAS project is focused on an innovation in the Materials and Manufacturing high growth sector and will apply a cutting edge and innovative, high throughput coating process - Microwave Plasma Assisted Sputtering (MPAS), to produce infrared (IR) transparent and hard, wear/erosion resistant coatings, which are themselves an innovation in materials dev...

High Temperature Coated Low Inertia Turbocharger Turbine Wheels (TurboCoat) researches coatings for use on turbocharger components as an enabler technology for the use of new advanced base materials. The project will focus on the turbine wheel which today is manufactured from Inconel, a very expensive nickel alloy. New base materials are being developed b...

CAEPAC will establish the feasibility of coated electrode plates of lightweight alloy substrates for PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) fuel cells. PEM fuel cells display the highest power densities of any of the fuel cell types, which makes them particularly attractive for transportation & portable applications where minimum size and weight are required. Air...