Anode-Engineered Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cell with Excellent Performance and Fuel Compatibility

Bin Hua; Ning Yan; Meng Li; Yi-Fei Sun; Ya-Qian Zhang; Jian Li; Thomas Etsell; Partha Sarkar; Jing-Li Luo

doi:10.1002/adma.201602103

Anode-Engineered Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cell with Excellent Performance and Fuel Compatibility

Adv Mater. 2016 Oct;28(40):8922-8926. doi: 10.1002/adma.201602103. Epub 2016 Aug 25.

Authors

Bin Hua¹, Ning Yan², Meng Li³, Yi-Fei Sun⁴, Ya-Qian Zhang⁴, Jian Li³, Thomas Etsell⁴, Partha Sarkar⁵, Jing-Li Luo⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada. [email protected].
² Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1098XH, The Netherlands.
³ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China.
⁴ Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada.
⁵ Environment and Carbon Management Division, Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures, Edmonton, Alberta, T6N 1E4, Canada.
⁶ Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada. [email protected].

PMID: 27560706
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201602103

Abstract

Directly utilizing hydrocarbon fuels, particularly methane, is advantageous yet challenging in high-performance protonic ceramic fuel cells. In this work, this technological hurdle is well addressed by selective deposition of secondary electrocatalysts within the porous Ni-cermet anode. This novel strategy sheds light on the development of multifunctional porous structures for energy and catalysis applications.

Keywords: bifunctional nanoarchitecture; double perovskite; hydrocarbons; protonic ceramic fuel cells; selective deposition.