Anodesupported microtubular SOFCs （Anodesupported微管固体氧化物燃料电池）.pdf

i n t e r n a t i o n a l j o u r n a l o f h y d r o g e n e n e r g y 3 6 ( 2 0 1 1 ) 5 6 0 4 e5 6 1 0 Available at www.sciencedire ct .com j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c om / l o c a t e / h e Anode-supported micro-tubular SOFCs fabricated by a phase-inversion and dip-coating process Changcheng Chen a,b,1, Mingfei Liu a,1, Lei Yang a, Meilin Liu a,* a Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 771 Ferst Drive, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30332, USA b School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, People’s Republic of China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A simple phase-inversion process is successfully combined with a dip-coating process to Received 25 November 2010 fabricate anode-supported micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Several processing Received in revised form parameters were systematically investigated to optimize cell microstructure and perfor- 2 February 2011 mance, including the amount of pore former used in the support substrate and the number Accepted 3 February 2011 of electrolyte coatings. Single cells with w240 mm thick NiO-YSZ support and 10 mm thick Available online 9 March 2011 YSZ electrolyte were successfully fabricated, demonstrating peak power densities of 752 and 277 mW cm2 at 800 and 600 C, respectively, when a composite cathode consisting of Keywords: La0.85Sr0.15MnO3 and Sm0.2Ce0.8O2d was used. This simple fabrication technique can