Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs): From Design to Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2022) | Viewed by 2502
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cathode materials for solid oxide fuel cells; oxygen reduction reaction in solid oxide fuel cells; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; usage of silver in solid oxide fuel cells; solid oxide fuel cells with proton conducting electrolyte; intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells; corrosion of magnesium alloys
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Dear Colleagues,
The production of energy from fossil fuels causes many environmental problems. Useful forms of renewable energy may be directly obtained from solar and wind resources; however, due to their discontinuity, storage of energy in the chemical form is a great challenge today.
Among all known types of fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) show the highest efficiency and are attractive for storage and regeneration of renewable energy by operating reversibly in solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) and SOFC modes.
SOFC with proton-conducting electrolytes are expected to reveal a very high efficiency due to the fact that water is emitted at the cathode, not at the anode, which does not lead to dilution of the fuel. The challenge is to obtain novel electrolyte and electrode materials which are at the same time efficient and resistant to corrosion caused by used gases such as steam and CO2.
This Special Issue will focus on the recent progress of preparation novel materials for SOFC/SOEC with proton-conducting electrolytes, their tests, properties, performance of such SOFC SOEC, and their application.
Dr hab. Michał Mosiałek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solid oxide fuel cells with proton conducting electrolyte (PC-SOFC)
- cathode materials for PC-SOFC
- electrolyte materials for PC-SOFC
- reversible SOFC/solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC)
- CO2 resistant materials for PC-SOFC
- CO2 resistant materials for SOFC/SOEC
- CO2 and steam co-electrolysis in SOEC
- low temperature SOFC
- application of PC-SOFC
- application of SOFC/SOEC
