Design of Active Sites on Nickel in the Anode of Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells using Trace Amount of Platinum Oxides

Andrii Rednyk; Toshiyuki Mori; Shunya Yamamoto; Akira Suzuki; Yuta Yamamoto; Takayoshi Tanji; Noriko Isaka; Peter Kúš; Shigeharu Ito; Fei Ye

doi:10.1002/cplu.201800280

Design of Active Sites on Nickel in the Anode of Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells using Trace Amount of Platinum Oxides

Chempluschem. 2018 Aug;83(8):740. doi: 10.1002/cplu.201800280. Epub 2018 Jun 19.

Authors

Andrii Rednyk¹, Toshiyuki Mori¹, Shunya Yamamoto², Akira Suzuki¹, Yuta Yamamoto³, Takayoshi Tanji³, Noriko Isaka⁴, Peter Kúš^{1

5}, Shigeharu Ito^{1

6}, Fei Ye⁷

Affiliations

¹ Global Research Center for Environmental and Energy Based on Nanomaterials (GREEN), Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.
² Takasaki Advanced Radiation Research Institute, National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 1233 Watanuki Takasaki, Gunma, 370-1292, Japan.
³ Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan.
⁴ Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) station, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-2-1 Sengen Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0047, Japan.
⁵ Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00, Prague 8, Czech Republic.
⁶ Department of Creative Engineering, Chemical and Biological course, National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College, 104 Sawada, Inoka, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, 997-8511, Japan.
⁷ School of Material Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, 2 Linggong Road, Dalian, 116024, P. R. China.

PMID: 31950665
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201800280

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Prof. Dr. Toshiyuki Mori at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. The front cover picture shows the formation of new active sites on Ni in the anode of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), which displays high performance at intermediate temperature. The combination of processing route design, microanalysis, and surface atomistic simulation provides us with a new design paradigm for fabrication of high-performance SOFCs. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/cplu.201800170.