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SOLID STATE IONICS
Volume 166, Issue 3-4, Pages 251-259Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssi.2003.12.009
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solid oxide fuel cell; Ni/YSZ cermet anode; sintering; thermal expansion; electrical conductivity
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In this investigation porous Ni/YSZ composite SOFC anode structures were produced by adding separate Ni and graphite (pore former) particles and/or by adding Ni coated graphite powder to a tape casting suspension. The porous volume increased with an increase in graphite content in a similar manner regardless of low the graphite was added (i.e. separately or as the core of a coated powder). The sintering shrinkage of the anodes decreased with an increase in the Ni content. Both sintering behaviour and the CTE of sintered and reduced anodes were similar regardless of how the Ni was added. However for a given Ni content the electrical conductivity was dramatically improved when Ni was added as a coating on a graphite powder. This behaviour was explained on the basis of an effective Ni content, V-Nieff, which includes the graphite portion of the coated particle. In the green tape, V-Nieff controls the creation of a percolating network of Ni. However, when the graphite bums away it leaves a percolated Ni network at a much lower volume fraction than would be required from a dense Ni particle. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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