Graphite–phenolic resin composites bipolar plates are devel-oped by compression molding technique with contact molding pressure and applying a pressure of 100kgcm−2. The carbon
materials in its different structural form give different inde-pendent properties and it is found that no single reinforcing filler constituent based composite plate gives the requisite properties for being used as bipolar plate in the PEM fuel cell. The judicious combination of reinforcing constituent gives the