The development of solid acid-based fuel cells was pioneered by Professor Sossina Haile's Research Group in the Materials Science Department at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Through this work, important breakthroughs were made by Professor Haile's graduate students, Calum Chisholm and Dane Boysen, and post-doctoral scholar Tetsuya Uda. These developments led these scientists to found Superprotonic on November 23, 2003, in Pasadena, California, in order to bring this truly revolutionary technology to the marketplace.
In August 2005 the company got Venture Capital backing in order to speed up the technology development and to make Solid Acid Fuel Cells a commercially viable product-line. The Venture Partners supporting Superprotonic are Nth-Power, Norsk Hydro, CMEA Ventures, Battelle Venture Partners and Onpoint Technologies.
Our Mission
Superprotonic is developing SAFC stacks for portable, back-up power, auxiliary power unit (APU) and commercial/industrial applications. Our goal is to become the leading supplier of fuel cell stacks to original equipment manufacturers in these market sectors.
Our Vision
Superprotonic plans to take SAFCs to the forefront of fuel cell technology, which will allow fuel cell technology to become both economically competitive with and technologically superior to incumbent technologies.
Our Values
Superprotonic believes SAFCs to be a superior technology to current fuel cell types under development for medium to low power applications due to their intermediate (100-300°C) operational temperatures. Superprotonic is dedicated to bringing this new technology to market and in so doing, benefiting our society by 1) decreasing overall fuel consumption, 2) decreasing overall pollution emissions, and 3) increasing the use of renewable fuels.
Goals & Objectives
As a fuel cell technology company, Superprotonic will permeate and, eventually, dominate medium to low power production markets with SAFCs. As an energy technology company, Superprotonic will market the 50% to 100% increased fuel efficiencies of SAFCs over current power producing systems and promote the advantages of using renewable fuels. Both objectives aim, in general, to reduce the overall consumption of our planet's natural resources and, in particular, our country's dependence on foreign energy resources. Our objectives are to optimize the performance of SAFCs to 1 W/cm2 peak power using Superprotonic's experienced development team and to market SAFC stacks to OEMs. Through one or more partnerships with these OEMs, Superprotonic will pioneer the rapid commercialization of SAFC technologies through the production of high power density, high reliability, and low cost SAFC stacks.
Board of Directors
Currently, the Board of Directors of Superprotonic consists of Thomas Baruch, Thomas Jahn, Winston Fu, Maurice Gunderson, Calum Chisholm and Bill Bradley.
Officers
Chief Executive Officer - Thomas Jahn
Vice President and Founder - Calum R.I. Chisholm, Ph.D.
Vice President and Founder - Dane A. Boysen, Ph.D.
