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IT IS INSIDE A NESTED LIST. CHANGE THE STUDY NAME BETWEEN THE H3 TAGS. --> <h3>Nanotechnology for Portable Fuel Cells Provide Increased Energy Density</h3><!-- YOU START THE LIST WITH THE <dl> TAG. <dl> WILL CREATE THE NON-TABBED FIRST ELEMENT IN THE LIST. <dd> WILL CREATE THE TABBED SUBTOPICS. ANOTHER <dl> TAG (INSIDE THE LIST, WHERE THE <dd> TAGS ARE. SEE SUBTOPIC 6) WILL CREATE ANOTHER HEADER. JUST USE <dd> TAGS AFTER IT TO MAKE ITS SUBTOPICS. <dl> TAGS NEED TO BE CLOSED AFTER THEIR SUBTOPICS. (THIS LIST BELOW IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE USE OF THESE TAGS.) YOU CAN USE AS MANY <dl> AND <dd> TAGS AS YOU NEED. --> <dl><b>Check Out These Key Topics</b> <dt> </dt><dd></dd><dd>BICYCLES FUEL CELL POWER </dd><dd>PORTABLE FUEL CELL POWER </dd><dd>PERSISTENT COMPUTING EXTENDED POWER </dd><dd>FIRST RESPONDER FUEL CELLS </dd><dd>Portable Medical Equipment </dd><dd>Laptop Computer Power </dd><dd>CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PORTABLE POWER </dd><dd>INSTANT RECHARGE FOR CONTINUOUS COMPUTING </dd><dd>FUEL CELL NANOTECHNOLOGY </dd><dd>HYBRID TECHNOLOGIES </dd><dd>FUEL CELL CARTRIDGES APPROVED FOR COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT </dd><dd>FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY DECREASES THE WEIGHT SOLDIERS CARRY </dd><dd>Global Warming Drives Portable Fuel Cell Energy Adoption </dd><dd>Fuel Cell Efficiency </dd><dd>Fuel Cell Electrochemical Converter </dd><dd>Clean Energy </dd><dd>DMFC Fuel Cells </dd><dd>Portable Fuel Cell Hours Of Operation </dd><dd>Power Degradation </dd><dd>Nanotechnology Catalysts <!-- SUBTOPIC 6 HAS PARTS TO IT, SO USE <dl> BEFORE IT, AND USE <dd> TAGS TO MAKE ITS PARTS. --> <!-- IF ANY OTHER SUBTOPIC HAS PARTS TO IT, USE THE <dl> TAG BEFORE IT AND MODEL IT AFTER SUBTOPIC 6. --><!-- IF THERE ARE MORE SUBTOPICS, CONTINUE USING <dd> TO CREATE THEM IN THE LIST. --> </dd><dt> </dt><dd> </dd><dd><!-- THE </dl> TAG BELOW CLOSES THE MAIN LIST. --></dd> </dl> <center><!-- THIS TITLE IS THE SAME AS THE BOLD TITLE AT THE VERY TOP OF THE PAGE. --> <h3>Worldwide Nanotechnology Portable Fuel Cell Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009-2015</h3> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> </center> <p><!-- THE FOLLOWING IS THE SECTION OF THE PAGE THAT DOES ALL THE EXPLAINING ABOUT THE STUDY'S TOPIC. PARAGRAPHS CAN BE ADDED OR REMOVED EASILY. TO ADD A PARAGRAPH, SIMPLY ADD TEXT UNDERNEATH THE <br><br> OF THE PRECEEDING PARAGRAPH. MAKE SURE TO ADD <br><br> TO THE END OF ANY PARAGRAPHS YOU ADD. --> </p><p>Portable fuel cells are poised to achieve significant growth as units become smaller and fuels less expensive. According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study,  Economies of scale do not entirely solve the inherent high costs of high grade metallic catalysts used in micro fuel cells. Nanotechnology is poised to provide new ways to create advanced materials that can be used to implement portable fuel cells. More catalyst price reductions are needed to make portable fuel cells competitive with thin film batteries. Portable fuel cells are useful in cities to power bicycles and for advanced multimedia electronics that draws a lot of power. </p> <p>Most of the developing world, where energy and environmental problems abound, still gets around on 2 wheels. 2% of the 1.5 billion population in China owns a car. Cities have started banning the use of 2 stroke engine motorcycles in favor of LPG scooters and electric bicycles.</p> <p>19 million electric bicycles were purchased in 2008. The trend is expected to continue. As more people need to travel further each year, fuel cells take on a role in short distance travel. As economies evolve, fuel cells provide a role for green energy. Purchasing power constraints and air pollution issues stimulate the need for low cost, zero carbon transportation solutions.</p> <p>Portable fuel cell vendors are strategically positioned to develop and implement solutions. Technology costs continue to decrease. Practical fuel solutions continue to develop. Experiments with portable fuel cell products are starting to take place in various parts of the world.</p> <p>Nanotechnology is being used to implement a variety of portable fuel cell solutions. Many different nanotechnology techniques are being explored. One is of a silicon structure, approximately 400 microns deep, much thicker than the 10 micron depth of a membrane in a traditional PEM based cell. This design is expected to enable a much larger reaction surface area, enabling high power in a small form factor.</p> <p>To compress more power into smaller volumes, researchers have begun to build fuel cells on the fuzzy frontier of nanotechnology. Silicon etching, evaporation, and other processes borrowed from chip manufacturers have been used to create tightly packed channel arrays to guide the flow of fuel through the cell.</p> <p>The point is to pack a large catalytic surface area into a wafer thin volume. This approach is evolving, going beyond two dimensional aspects to gain more surface area. Methods improve the performance of nano scale fuel cells.</p> <p>Three dimensional structures improve current electrocatalysts that have traditionally been expressed on a flat surface. Two dimensional catalysts give hundreds of microamps per square centimeter, while three dimensional catalysts increase the surface area by orders of magnitude.</p> <p>Fuel channels are evolving in ready made in a commonly available, porous alumina filters costing only about $1. The filter is riddled with neat, cylindrical holes only 200 nanometers in diameter, and was initially used in labs as a template for the growth of nanowires.</p> <p>Nanowires can be grown in a platinum copper alloy, then dissolving the copper by soaking the filter in nitric acid creates electrodes. In place of a solid nanowire, each hole is left with a porous platinum electrode. The partially dissolved wires are structurally complex, as befits their random nature, and have an enormous surface area for their size.</p> <p>The market size for portable fuel cell power at $80.1 million in 2008 is estimated to reach $4.4 billion dollars by 2015. Existing markets are from mobile homes and PCs used remotely. Strong growth comes as hybrid fuel cell systems evolve to support thin film batteries. 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Over 200 in-depth interviews are conducted for each report with a broad range of key participants and opinion leaders in the market segment. <!-- THIS SECTION DESCRIBES THE COMPANY. --> <h4>About the Company</h4>WinterGreen Research, founded in 1985, provides strategic market assessments in telecommunications, communications equipment, health care, and advanced computer technology. Industry reports focus on opportunities that will expand existing markets or develop major new markets. The reports assess new product and service positioning strategies, new and evolving technologies, and technological impact on products, services, and markets. Market shares are provided. Leading market participants are profiled, and their marketing strategies, acquisitions, and strategic alliances are discussed. The principals of WinterGreen Research have been involved in analysis and forecasting of international business opportunities in telecommunications and advanced computer technology markets for over 30 years. <!-- THIS SECTION DESCRIBES THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS. --> <h4>About the Principal Authors</h4> Ellen T. Curtiss, Technical Director, co-founder of WinterGreen Research, conducts strategic and market assessments in technology-based industries. Previously she was a member of the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., for 23 years, most recently as Vice President of Arthur D. Little Decision Resources, specializing in strategic planning and market development services. She is a graduate of Boston University and the Program for Management Development at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. She is the author of recent studies on worldwide telecommunications markets and the Top Ten Telecommunications market analysis and forecasts.<br><br>Susan Eustis, President, co-founder of WinterGreen Research, has done research in communications and computer markets and applications. She holds several patents in microcomputing and parallel processing. She is the author of recent studies of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) marketing strategies, Internet software, a study of Push to Talk Equipment, Worldwide Telecommunications Equipment, Top Ten Telecommunications, Digital Loop Carrier, Web Hosting, Business Process Management, Servers, Blades, the Mainframe as a Green Machine, and Application Server markets. Ms. Eustis is a graduate of Barnard College.<br><br> <center><!-- THIS IS THE NAVIGATION BAR, GREEN, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. 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