Recent Advances in Fuel Cells: Materials, Simulation, and AI-Based Applications
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 272
Editors
Interests: fuel cells; microbial fuel cells; electrochemical processes; bioelectrochemical systems; materials and electrode development; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); artificial intelligence and machine learning; sustainable energy and environmental applications
Interests: control; inteligencia artificial; visión artificialrobótica
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in fuel cell and microbial fuel cell technologies have enabled enhanced control of electrochemical and bioelectrochemical processes, fostering progress in fundamental research, device miniaturization, and practical applications. The integration of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), multiphysics simulation, and artificial intelligence provides powerful tools to analyze transport phenomena, reaction kinetics, and coupled electrochemical, bioelectrochemical, fluidic behavior, enabling performance prediction, optimization, and intelligent control of advanced energy systems.
This Special Issue focuses on experimental, numerical, and data-driven studies addressing energy conversion and sustainability in fuel cells and microbial fuel cells.
The aim of this Special Issue is to showcase recent advances that combine experiments, simulation, and artificial intelligence to improve energy conversion efficiency, system reliability, and sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Juan Manuel Olivares Ramírez
Dr. Omar Rodríguez-Abreo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fuel cells
- microbial fuel cells
- electrochemical processes
- bioelectrochemical systems
- materials and electrode development
- computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- artificial intelligence and machine learning
- sustainable energy and environmental applications
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