TreadStone's LiteCell Technology for lighter weight, high performance, low cost fuel cell stacks is based on an innovative and unique design for metal corrosion protection. This technique enables the use of low cost metals and inexpensive fabrication processes to make bipolar plates that meet the life, cost and weight/volume DOE targets required to commercialize fuel cells for automobile power. Fuel cell stacks employing the TreadStone's LiteCell Technology are 40-50% lighter than the current heavy graphite fuel stacks used that also suffer from poor thermal management. Because of LiteCell's anti-corrosion protection, the fuel cell maintains its high level of performance and low-contact plate resistance. This innovative approach enables the fuel cell system integrator to use metal separate plates made from low cost, commercially available metal substrates and low cost processing techniques. TreadStone has demonstrated feasibility of this approach, on metal plates for a Soldier Portable Power project for the US Army.