Scalable nanostructured membranes for solid-oxide fuel cells

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 282-286

  Tsuchiya, Masaru ^a,b   Lai, Bo Kuai ^b   Ramanathan, Shriram ^b  

^a SiEnergy Systems LLC   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; OHMIC CONTACTS; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); TEMPERATURE; THICK FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; YTTRIA STABILIZED ZIRCONIA; YTTRIUM OXIDE; ZIRCONIA;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY; MECHANICAL FAILURES; NANOSTRUCTURED MEMBRANES; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PERMEATION MEMBRANES; SOLID STATE IONIC DEVICES; THIN FILM SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS; YTTRIA-STABILIZED ZIRCONIA MEMBRANES;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

FUEL; HYDROGEN; OXIDE; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY; GAS; NANOANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79955816336     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.43     Document Type: Article

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