Processing and surface modification of titanium open cell porous structures for PEM fuel cell bipolar plates

This dataset includes the data required to validate the results published in the article with title "Processing and surface modification of titanium open cell porous structures for PEM fuel cell bipolar plates", accepted at the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Includes the original microstructures taken in an optical microscope, three point bending (3PB) test files, fracture surface images, x-ray diffraction (XRD) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) files, corrosion testing files and Interfacial Contact Resistance (ICR) measurements.

To make the dataset interoperable and usable in the long term, the data is included preferentially in file formats like .txt for 3PB, XRD, XPS, corrosion and ICR data, .tiff for images.

The name of each file indicates how it was processed and then the type of data that this represents. The underscore (_) separates the different identifiers of the data, and this is the structure followed: material_sintering_postprocessing_test_samplenumber
Dashes will be used within the identifier to separate different condition of the material or test.

In some cases, the postprocessing will be omitted when there is no postprocessing performed, in this case, the name of the file is: material_sintering_test_samplenumber
When the number of results per test and condition is only one, the suffix _samplenumber will be ommited as well.