Detailed electrochemical performance and microstructural characterization of nickel – Yttria stabilized zirconia cermet anodes infiltrated with nickel, gadolinium doped ceria, and nickel – Gadolinium doped ceria nanoparticles
Abstract
Infiltration of nickel nanoparticles into nickel – yttria-stabilized-zirconia (Ni-YSZ) cermet anodes improves anode performance by reducing the average nickel feature size of the electrode, thus increasing the density of triple phase boundaries (TPBs). However, the TPBs of nickel nanoparticles are not fully utilized because there is no conductive pathway between nanoparticles, and nickel nanoparticles suffer from rapid coarsening during operation. This work explores the infiltration of Gd0.1Ce0.9O2-δ (GDC) as a material for connecting and stabilizing infiltrated nickel nanoparticles. Anodes were infiltrated with Ni, GDC, and Ni-GDC to study their stability and electrochemical performance. Measurements show that the simultaneous infiltration of nickel and GDC results in a greater performance improvement than either nickel or GDC alone. From this result, it is speculated that GDC provides a conducting pathway between nickel nanoparticles, better utilizing their TPBs. Fitting of electrochemical impedance spectra with an equivalent circuit model is used to measure individual cell resistances, revealing that infiltration of GDC reduces the activation energy of the anodic charge transfer reaction from 1.29 eV to 0.74 eV. The Ni-GDC nanoparticles are also more durable than nickel nanoparticles, demonstrating microstructural stability after 120 hours of constant current at 800 °C, while nickel alone shows extensive coarsening.
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- Boston Univ., MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1833226
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1573881
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FE0026096
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Power Sources
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 447; Journal ID: ISSN 0378-7753
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Solid oxide fuel cell; Liquid infiltration; Nickel – Yttria stabilized Zirconia cermet; Gadolinium-doped-Ceria; Equivalent circuit modeling; Performance improvement
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Gasper, Paul J., Lu, Yanchen, Nikiforov, Alexey Y., Basu, Soumendra N., Gopalan, Srikanth, and Pal, Uday B. Detailed electrochemical performance and microstructural characterization of nickel – Yttria stabilized zirconia cermet anodes infiltrated with nickel, gadolinium doped ceria, and nickel – Gadolinium doped ceria nanoparticles. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.227357.
Gasper, Paul J., Lu, Yanchen, Nikiforov, Alexey Y., Basu, Soumendra N., Gopalan, Srikanth, & Pal, Uday B. Detailed electrochemical performance and microstructural characterization of nickel – Yttria stabilized zirconia cermet anodes infiltrated with nickel, gadolinium doped ceria, and nickel – Gadolinium doped ceria nanoparticles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.227357
Gasper, Paul J., Lu, Yanchen, Nikiforov, Alexey Y., Basu, Soumendra N., Gopalan, Srikanth, and Pal, Uday B. Mon .
"Detailed electrochemical performance and microstructural characterization of nickel – Yttria stabilized zirconia cermet anodes infiltrated with nickel, gadolinium doped ceria, and nickel – Gadolinium doped ceria nanoparticles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.227357. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1833226.
@article{osti_1833226,
title = {Detailed electrochemical performance and microstructural characterization of nickel – Yttria stabilized zirconia cermet anodes infiltrated with nickel, gadolinium doped ceria, and nickel – Gadolinium doped ceria nanoparticles},
author = {Gasper, Paul J. and Lu, Yanchen and Nikiforov, Alexey Y. and Basu, Soumendra N. and Gopalan, Srikanth and Pal, Uday B.},
abstractNote = {Infiltration of nickel nanoparticles into nickel – yttria-stabilized-zirconia (Ni-YSZ) cermet anodes improves anode performance by reducing the average nickel feature size of the electrode, thus increasing the density of triple phase boundaries (TPBs). However, the TPBs of nickel nanoparticles are not fully utilized because there is no conductive pathway between nanoparticles, and nickel nanoparticles suffer from rapid coarsening during operation. This work explores the infiltration of Gd0.1Ce0.9O2-δ (GDC) as a material for connecting and stabilizing infiltrated nickel nanoparticles. Anodes were infiltrated with Ni, GDC, and Ni-GDC to study their stability and electrochemical performance. Measurements show that the simultaneous infiltration of nickel and GDC results in a greater performance improvement than either nickel or GDC alone. From this result, it is speculated that GDC provides a conducting pathway between nickel nanoparticles, better utilizing their TPBs. Fitting of electrochemical impedance spectra with an equivalent circuit model is used to measure individual cell resistances, revealing that infiltration of GDC reduces the activation energy of the anodic charge transfer reaction from 1.29 eV to 0.74 eV. The Ni-GDC nanoparticles are also more durable than nickel nanoparticles, demonstrating microstructural stability after 120 hours of constant current at 800 °C, while nickel alone shows extensive coarsening.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.227357},
journal = {Journal of Power Sources},
number = ,
volume = 447,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 11 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Mon Nov 11 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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