3-D inkjet-printed solid oxide electrochemical reactors. II. LSM - YSZ electrodes
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Author(s)
Farandos, Nicholas M
Li, Tao
Kelsall, GH
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Inkjet printing is an economical additive manufacturing technique with minimal material waste, which offers a high degree of control over vertical resolution, so lending itself well to the fabrication of the functional layers of solid oxide electrochemical reactors. We formulated a printable and stable colloidal dispersion of La0.8Sr0.2MnO3 (LSM) -(Y2O3)0.08(ZrO2)0.92 (YSZ) ink to print sequentially onto an inkjet-printed YSZ electrolyte sintered to a Ni-YSZ substrate to form the cell: Ni-YSZ|YSZ|YSZ-LSM|LSM. After sintering, the electrolyte and YSZ-LSM electrode were 9 and 20 μm thick, respectively. The performances of these reactors were determined as fuel cells, operating with dry H2, and as electrolysers, operating with CO/CO2 in the ratio 1/9. At 788 °C, the peak fuel cell power density was 0.69 W cm-2, and at a cell potential difference of 1.5 V, the electrolysis current density was 3.3 A cm-2, indicating that the performance of inkjet-printed YSZ-LSM electrodes can exceed those fabricated by conventional powder mixing processes.
Date Issued
2018-03-16
Date Acceptance
2018-03-15
Citation
Electrochimica Acta, 2018, 270, pp.264-273
ISSN
0013-4686
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
264
End Page
273
Journal / Book Title
Electrochimica Acta
Volume
270
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Subjects
Inkjet printing; reversible solid oxide fuel cell - electrolyser; yttria-stabilised zirconia (YSZ); lanthanum strontium manganite (LSM); CO2 electrolysis
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-04-04