Fabrication and characterisation of a large-area solid oxide fuel cell based on dual tape cast YSZ electrode skeleton supported YSZ electrolytes with vanadate and ferrite perovskite-impregnated anodes and cathodes
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07/12/2014Grant ID
N00014-11-1-0247
WRMA 2012/R2
EP/K015540/1
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Infiltration of ceramic materials into a pre-formed ceramic scaffold is an effective way of fabricating a solid oxide fuel cell with nano-structured ceramic electrodes by avoiding detrimental interfacial reactions through low-temperature processing for achieving high performance using hydrogen as well as a carbonaceous fuel. However, there are significant concerns about the applicability of this method because of the difficulty in fabricating a large-area gas-tight but thin electrolyte between two highly porous ceramic and the multiple repetitions of infiltration process. Here, a large-area (5 cm by 5 cm) scaffold with a thin yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte sandwiched between two identical porous structures is prepared by tape casting and co-firing, and then solution precursors are impregnated into the porous scaffolds to prepare nano-structured La0.8Sr0.2FeO3 (LSF) and La0.7Sr0.3VO3−δ (LSVred). The thus prepared solid oxide fuel cell with 10 wt% ceria + 1 wt% Pd as a catalyst in anodes shows a peak power of 489 mW cm−2 (~6 W per cell) at 800 °C using H2 as a fuel and air as an oxidant. This large-area fuel cell retained the integrity of the thin electrolyte and high performance after the reducing-oxidation cycle at 900 °C, showing superiority over the conventional Ni(O)-YSZ based support.
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Ni , C S , Vohs , J M , Gorte , R J & Irvine , J T S 2014 , ' Fabrication and characterisation of a large-area solid oxide fuel cell based on dual tape cast YSZ electrode skeleton supported YSZ electrolytes with vanadate and ferrite perovskite-impregnated anodes and cathodes ' , Journal of Materials Chemistry A , vol. 2 , no. 45 , pp. 19150-19155 . https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ta04789c
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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Peer reviewed
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2050-7488Type
Journal article
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© Royal Society of Chemistry 2014. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4TA04789C
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The authors thank the U.S. Office of Naval Research for support for this collaboration. CSN and JTSI also thank EPSRC (UK) for support. JTSI thanks the Royal Society for support.Collections
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