Professor Ana Tavares’ research activities focus on fuel cells, in particular on the development of direct methanol cell membranes. Its activities also include the study of the mass transport phenomenon (diffusion of methanol, water, etc.) and electrode optimization (triple phase boundary).

Professor Tavares has extensive experience in:

• The development of non-fluorinated polymeric materials for fuel cells and their characterizations (structure, morphology, transport)
• Manufacturing and evaluation of PEM & DMFC batteries
• The synthesis and characterization of oxide-based electrocatalysts used in the fields of SOFCs, water electrolysis and the chloroalkali industry