Direct in situ probe of electrochemical processes in operating fuel cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 6330-6336

  Nonnenmann, Stephen S ^a   Kungas, Rainer ^a   Vohs, John ^a   Bonnell, Dawn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cathodes; fuel cells; interfaces; scanning probe microscopy; triple phase boundary

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CONDUCTING MECHANISM; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESS; ELECTRODE/ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; SCANNING SURFACE POTENTIAL MICROSCOPIES; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; TRIPLE PHASE BOUNDARY;

CATHODES; FUEL CELLS; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; YTTRIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIA;

YTTRIA STABILIZED ZIRCONIA;

METAL; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; OXIDES;

EID: 84880806514     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4023763     Document Type: Article

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