Suk Won

A simple, yet effective approach of stabilizing the nanostructure of porous metal‐based electrodes and thus, extending the life of microsolid oxide fuel cells is demonstrated. In an effort to avoid thermal agglomeration of metal electrodes, an ultrathin yttria‐stabilized zirconia (YSZ) is coated on the porous metal (Pt) cathode by the atomic layer deposition, a scalable, and potentially high‐throughput deposition technique. A very thin YSZ coating is found to maintain the morphology of its under

This study reports a polymer electrolyte fuel cell based on polydimethylsiloxane coated with a flexible current-collecting layer of Ag nanowire percolation networks. The reactive area of the bendable fuel cell was 9 cm2 and showed the maximum absolute power of 639 mW (the power density was 71 mW cm−2) under various bending conditions. Impedance spectra of the operating cell revealed that ohmic and Faradaic resistances decreased under the bent condition. Overall, the degree of bending improves th

This paper presents a combinatorial deposition of a nano-thin film yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte deposited on a nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane, which serves as a supporting and gas-permeable substrate. The dense YSZ electrolyte was deposited by combining atomic layer deposition (ALD) and sputtering in an attempt to realize a pinhole-free electrolyte on a porous structure with a minimum electrolyte thickness. The YSZ electrolyte with an overall thickness of about 3

This paper studies the effect of flow channel scaling on fuel cell performance. In particular, the impact of dimensional scale on the order of 100 micrometers and below has been investigated. A model based on three-dimensional computational flow dynamics has been developed which predicts that very small channels result in significantly higher peak power densities compared to their larger counterparts. For experimental verification, microchannel flow structures fabricated with varying sizes in SU