Nanoporous palladium anode for direct ethanol solid oxide fuel cells with nanoscale proton-conducting ceramic electrolyte

• Main Authors: Li, Yong, Wong, Lai Mun, Xie, Hanlin, Wang, Shijie, Su, Pei-Chen
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Direct ethanol fuel cells; Low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86068; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43932
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this work, we demonstrate the operation of micro-solid oxide fuel cells (μ-SOFCs) with nanoscale proton-conducting Y-BaZrO3 (BZY) electrolyte to avoid the fuel crossover problem for direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs). The μ-SOFCs are operated with the direct utilisation of ethanol vapour as a fuel...