This current study reports preparation of Nickel-Gadolinium doped Ceria (Ni-GDC) composite via controlled unidirectional freeze casting of aqueous-based GDC slurry completed with nickel infiltrated into the porous GDC samples. Gadolinium doped ceria powder prepared by gel-combustion synthesis method. The oxide powder was confirmed to be the fluorite-structured of Ce0.8Gd0.2O1.9 solid solution b...

Title of Document: MODEL DEVELOPMENT FOR GADOLINIADOPED CERIA-BASED ANODES IN SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS Lei Wang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Gregory S. Jackson, Department of Mechanical Engineering Intermediate temperature (500 700 °C) solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFCs) with gadolinia-doped ceria (GDC) electrolytes have significant commercial potential due to reduced material...

Digital quantification of a two-dimensional structure was applied to a GDC(Gd₂O₃-doped CeO₂)/LSM(La₀.₈₅Sr₀.₁₅MnO₃) composite cathode employed for solid oxide fuel cells. With the aid of high-resolution imaging capability based on secondary and backscattered electron images, two-dimensional electron micrographs were converted to digital binary files using an image processing tool combined with t...

A key obstacle to practical operation of protonic ceramic fuel cells (PCFCs) is the development of high efficient cathode materials. In this study, we report the identification of Gd0.1Ce0.9O2-d (GDC) infiltrated PrBaCo2O5þd (PBC) e BaZr0.1Ce0.7Y0.2O3-d (BZCY) materials as a novel triple phase (e /Hþ/O2 ) conducting composite cathode of PCFCs. This triple phase conducting composite cathode is c...

Gadolinia-doped ceria (GDC) is widely used as an interlayer for preventing the formation of SrZrO3 between yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte and lanthanum strontium cobalt iron oxides (LSCF) cathode solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). However, diffusion Gd ions to YSZ results in decrease ionic conductivity due Gd2(Zr, Ce)2O7. In present work, we focus on lanthanum-doped (LDC) LSCF cathod...

An array of analytical methods including surface area determination by gas adsorption using the Brunauer, Emmett, Teller (BET) method, combustion analysis, XRD, ToF-SIMS, TEM and impedance spectroscopy has been used to investigate the interaction of gadolinia doped ceria (GDC) with hydrogen sulphide containing reducing atmospheres. It is shown that sulphur is incorporated into the GDC bulk and ...

The tribological performance and friction-induced vibration of Gd0.2-Ce0.8O1.9 (GDC) reinforced nickel oxide (NiO) metal matrix composites prepared via sintering on the performance, as well friction induced were investigated. Compared to pure NiO, exhibit improved mechanical properties, such a relatively high dislocation density, hardness small grain size. results show that GDC-reinforced NiO n...

This study describes the use of a composite nitrate salt solution as a precursor to synthesize CeO2 and Gd2O3-doped CeO2 (GDC) nanoparticles (NPs) using an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ). The microstructures of CeO2 and GDC NPs were found to be cubical and spherical shaped nanocrystallites with average particle sizes of 10.5 and 6.7 nm, respectively. Reactive oxygen species, detected by...

We herein report an impedance spectroscopy study of Au electrodes on Gd-doped CeO2 (GDC) – molten Li2CO3+Na2CO3 (LNC) composite electrolytes in O2 and O2+CO2 atmospheres. Complementary measurements GDC alone are provided for supporting insight. find that the adsorption CO2 atmospheres effectively blocks oxygen severely slows reduction kinetics. The conductivity is dominated by phase solid-solid...

The LAO-GDC solid composite electrolyte has been proposed for use in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC). material conductivity of Carbonate-Ceria (SCC) electrolytes is 0.04Scm-1 between 400 and 700°C. For this purpose, mixtures LaAlO3 (LAO) gadolinium doped ceria Ce0.8Gd0.2O2 (GDC) were created weight ratios 3:1, 2:2, 1:3. was studied separately to improve conductivity. phase structure microstructur...