Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 9052
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Interests: oxide ion- and proton-conducting solid electrolytes; energy conversion; solid oxide fuel cells; solid oxide electrolyzers; solid oxide sensors; deposition of solid oxide films
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Dear Colleagues,
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are efficient energy conversion devices that convert the chemical energy of a fuel into electricity via electrochemical reactions. Most of the challenges hindering SOFC commercialization arise from their high operating temperature (above 750 °C). At present, the reduction in operating temperatures to an intermediate temperature (IT) range (400–700 °C) is the main task for SOFC development. Consequently, proton-conducting oxides have attracted widespread interest as electrolyte materials, alternative to traditional oxygen ion conductors, for use in IT-SOFCs, due to their low activation energy and sufficiently high ionic conductivity.
In the few last decades, many efforts have been made to investigate electrolyte and electrode materials for proton-conducting SOFCs. Great research efforts have been focused on the fabrication and study of the electrochemical performance of proton-conducting SOFCs with different configurations (electrode-, electrolyte-, or metal-supported cells). Despite the impressive progress that has been achieved, significant challenges remain, especially with respect to minimizing the material interaction, the reduction in polarization losses, and the increase in cell durability, among others.
The Special Issue of Applied Sciences “Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Fuel Cells” aims to cover recent advances and new trends in the development of materials for different cell components and their processing and performance, the design, fabrication and testing of cells, cell performance modeling, and related activities in the field of the proton-conducting SOFCs.
Dr. Liliya Dunyushkina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- proton-conducting SOFC
- proton-conducting electrolyte
- IT-SOFC electrodes
- IT-SOFC performance
- proton-conducting SOFC design
