Press Release 2010
Success in developing groundbreaking electrolyte materials
-One step forward for commercialization of SOFC-

Left: Cross section of BZPY-based single cell after fuel-cell testing. Four layers are clearly visible: from left, the supporting anode, the anode functional layer (about 22 μm thick), the electrolyte (about 20μm thick), and the composite cathode.

Right: Voltage and power density curves of BZPY-based fuel cells measured at 550, 600 and 650°C in humidified hydrogen-+ambient air fuel cell experiments.

from the anode to the electrolyte layer, to occupy the In3+ sites.
Right: Fuel cell performance of electrode-supported cells using BZY electrolytes prepared by different methods and measured at 600oC in the literature reports (spin-coating cell was tested at 800˚C) as well as in the present study, indicating that the BZY cell in the present study shows the largest power density
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- 1.International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)