Project Summary

Research and development in CFCC is supported by a wide range of government and private sources. The scope includes different fuel cell technologies, fuel processing, and advanced materials. Results are reported in numerous scholarly publications and collaborations with industry contribute directly to advanced system development.

Proton-Conducting Ceramics:

• Electrode Materials for Protonic Ceramics
• Lanthanum Nickelates for Protonic Ceramics
• Study of Defect Transport in Protonic Ceramics Using Conductivity-Relaxation Measurements
• Study of Grain Boundaries in Protonic Ceramics Using Atom-Probe Tomography
• Tubular Electrode-Supported, Proton-Coducting Ceramic Membrances

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells:

• Modeling tools for chemical and electrochemical systems
• Next-Generation Perovskite Anodes for Tubular Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells
• Ink-Jet Printing of Segmented-In-Series Fuel Cell Architectures

Ceramic Microchannel Reactors:

• Ceramic Microchannel Reactors

Sensors and Instrumentation:

• Development of a low-cost coking sensor

Past Projects:

• Fundamental chemistry and physics of direct oxidation SOFCs
• SOFC systems with microchannel steam reformers
• New proton conducting membranes for fuel cells
• CO tolerant PEM fuel cell anode
• Non-Pt cathode catalysts
• Metal Bipolar plates for PEM fuel cells
• New carbon supports for fuel cells
• Thin-film, segmented-in-series SOFC Modules
• Metal-substituted hexaaluminate partial oxidation systems
• The behavior of cracks near interfaces and in gradients
• Hydrogen sensors
• Gas Transport and Internal-Reforming Chemistry in Novel SOFC Anodes and Structures