Inkjet-Printed Porous Silver Thin Film as a Cathode for a Low-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

In this work we report a porous silver thin film cathode that was fabricated by a simple inkjet printing process for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications. The electrochemical performance of the inkjet-printed silver cathode was studied at 300–450 °C and was compared with that of silver...

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Main Authors: Yu, Chen-Chiang, Baek, Jong Dae, Su, Chun-Hao, Fan, Liangdong, Wei, Jun, Liao, Ying-Chih, Su, Pei-Chen
Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83737
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42762
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:In this work we report a porous silver thin film cathode that was fabricated by a simple inkjet printing process for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications. The electrochemical performance of the inkjet-printed silver cathode was studied at 300–450 °C and was compared with that of silver cathodes that were fabricated by the typical sputtering method. Inkjet-printed silver cathodes showed lower electrochemical impedance due to their porous structure, which facilitated oxygen gaseous diffusion and oxygen surface adsorption–dissociation reactions. A typical sputtered nanoporous silver cathode became essentially dense after the operation and showed high impedance due to a lack of oxygen supply. The results of long-term fuel cell operation show that the cell with an inkjet-printed cathode had a more stable current output for more than 45 h at 400 °C. A porous silver cathode is required for high fuel cell performance, and the simple inkjet printing technique offers an alternative method of fabrication for such a desirable porous structure with the required thermal-morphological stability.