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Microstructural Characterization of Composite Electrode Materials in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells via Image Processing Analysis

  • Bae, Seung-Muk;Jung, Hwa-Young;Lee, Jong-Ho;Hwang, Jin-Ha
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.86-91
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    • 2010
  • Among various fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) offer the highest energy efficiency, when taking into account the thermal recycling of waste heat at high temperature. However, the highest efficiency and lowest pollution for a SOFC can be achieved through the sophisticated control of its constituent components such as electrodes, electrolytes, interconnects and sealing materials. The electrochemical conversion efficiency of a SOFC is particularly dependent upon the performance of its electrode materials. The electrode materials should meet highly stringent requirements to optimize cell performance. In particular, both mass and charge transport should easily occur simultaneously through the electrode structure. Matter transport or charge transport is critically related to the configuration and spatial disposition of the three constituent phases of a composite electrode, which are the ionic conducting phase, electronic conducting phase, and the pores. The current work places special emphasis on the quantification of this complex microstructure of composite electrodes. Digitized images are exploited in order to obtain the quantitative microstructural information, i.e., the size distributions and interconnectivities of each constituent component. This work reports regarding zirconia-based composite electrodes.

Improvement of source-drain contact properties of organic thin-film transistors by metal oxide and molybdenum double layer

  • Kim, Keon-Soo;Kim, Dong-Woo;Kim, Doo-Hyun;Kim, Hyung-Jin;Lee, Dong-Hyuck;Hong, Mun-Pyo
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.270-271
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    • 2008
  • The contact resistance between organic semiconductor and source-drain electrode in Bottom Contact Organic Thin-Film Transistors (BCOTFTs) can be effectively reduced by metal oxide/molybdenum double layer structure; metal oxide layers including nickel oxide (NiOx/Mo) and moly oxide(MoOx) under molybdenum work as a high performance carrier injection layer. Step profiles of source-drain electrode can be easily achieved by simultaneous etching of the double layers using the difference etching rate between metal oxides and metal layers.

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Cell Fabrication and Performances of SOFC prepared by DBM and SPM

  • Kim, Gwi-Yeol
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.286-288
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    • 2007
  • The research and development for the solid oxide fuel cell have been promoted rapidly and extensively in recent years, because of their high efficiency and future potential. Therefore this paper describes the manufacturing method and characteristics of anode electrode for solid oxide fuel cell, by the way, Ni-YSZ materials are used as anode of solid oxide fuel cell widely. In order to reduce production costs, we have fabricated single solid oxide fuel cell by doctor blade and screen printing method. Disk-type planar solid oxide fuel cell with an effective electrode area of about $7cm^2$ were fabricated and run for 500 h to investigate cell performance. The current density at a voltage of 0.7 V was $850mA/cm^2$.

XPS Study of MoO3 Interlayer Between Aluminum Electrode and Inkjet-Printed Zinc Tin Oxide for Thin-Film Transistor

  • Choi, Woon-Seop
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.267-270
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    • 2011
  • In the process of inkjet-printed zinc tin oxide thin-film transistor, the effect of metallic interlayer underneath of source and drain electrode was investigated. The reason for the improved electrical properties with thin molybdenum oxide ($MoO_3$) layer was due to the chemically intermixed state of metallic interlayer, aluminum source and drain, and oxide semiconductor together. The atomic configuration of three Mo $3d_3$ and $3d_5$ doublets, three different Al 2p core levels, two Sn $3d_5$, and four different types of oxygen O 1s in the interfaces among those layers was confirmed by X-ray photospectroscopy.

Characteristics and Preparation of Manganese Oxide Electrode by Using Pulse Voltammetry Electrodeposition for Electrolysis (펄스 전착법을 이용한 전기분해용 망간 산화물 전극의 제조 및 특성)

  • Yang, Jeong-Jin;Lee, Mi-Young;Kim, Jeong-Sik;Shin, Hyun-Soo;Park, Soo-Gil
    • Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.138-144
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    • 2010
  • In order to investigate the electrochemical propertied of titanium electrode for electrolysis, manganese oxide was electrodeposited on surface of mesh titanium by pulse voltammetry. The morphological changes and impedance results of manganese oxide electrodeposited electrode were analyzed by SEM and EDX. The size of electrodeposited manganese oxide on mesh titanium was increased with first cycle pulse time increase, and approximately 100 non-uniform manganese oxide was grown at 10 ms pulse polarization time. Charge transfer resistance($R_{ct}$) of near the overpotential was analyzed by EIS measurement and the feasibility of prepared electrode was evaluated by the overpotential calculated from Tafel plots.

Nano composite System based on ZnO-functionalized Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Determination of Cabergoline

  • Beitollahi, Hadi;Tajik, Somayeh;Alizadeh, Reza
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.307-313
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    • 2017
  • In this paper we report an electrochemical sensor based on ZnO-functionalized graphene oxide nanocomposite (ZnO-GO) for the sensitive determination of the cabergoline. Cabergoline electrochemical behaviors were investigated by cyclic voltammetry (CV), chronoamperometry (CHA) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). The modified electrode shows electrocatalytic activity toward cabergoline oxidation in phosphate buffer solution (PBS) (pH 7.0) with a reduction of the overpotential of about 180 mV and an increase in peak current. The DPV data showed that the obtained anodic peak currents were linearly dependent on the cabergoline concentrations in the range of $1.0-200.0{\mu}M$, with the detection limit of $0.45{\mu}M$. The prepared electrode was successfully applied for the determination of cabergoline in real samples.

Preparation of nano composite metal-oxide electrode and its application for superrcapacitor (나노복합산화물 전극의 제조 및 수퍼커패시터로써의 응용)

  • Kim, Hong-Il;Lee, Ju-Won;Kim, Sang-Gil;Yuk, Gyung-Chang;Park, Soo-Gil
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.07b
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    • pp.801-804
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    • 2002
  • Electrochemical capacitors are becoming attractive energy storage systems particularly for applications involving high power requirements such as hybrid systems consisting of batteries and electrochemical capacitors for electric vehicle propulsion. Both of amorphous cobalt oxide and manganese dioxide were prepared by sol-gel process reported in our previous work. Nanostructured supramolecular oligomer of 1,5-diaminoanthraquinone(DAAQ) coated metal oxides were successfully prepared by electrochemical oxidation from an acidic non-aqueous medium. We established process parameters of the technique for the formation of nano-structured materials. Furthermore, improved the capacitive properties of the nano structured metal oxide electrodes using controlled solution chemistry. $CoO_2$ and $MnO_2$-based composite electrode showed relatively good electrochemical behaviors in acidic electrolyte system with respect to specific capacity and scan rate dependency.

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Enhanced Electrochemical Reactivity at Electrolyte/electrode Interfaces of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Ag Grids

  • Choi, Mingi;Hwang, Sangyeon;Byun, Doyoung;Lee, Wonyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.52 no.5
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    • pp.356-360
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    • 2015
  • The specific role of current collectors was investigated at the electrolyte/electrode interface of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Ag grids were fabricated as current collectors using electrohydrodynamic (EHD) jet printing for precise control of the grid geometry. The Ag grids reduced both the ohmic and polarization resistances as the pitch of the Ag grids decreased from $400{\mu}m$ to $100{\mu}m$. The effective electron distribution along the Ag grids improved the charge transport and transfer at the interface, extending the active reaction sites. Our results demonstrate the applicability of EHD jet printing to the fabrication of efficient current collectors for performance enhancement of SOFCs.