Infiltration Methods to Producing Connected Nano Particulate Networks in Porous SOFC Backbone Electrodes

It has been demonstrated that the impregnation of nano scale particles into solid oxide fuel cells, which forms linked networks, results in a significant improvement in performance.When penetrated, porous electrode skeletons, or backbones, made of electrolyte materials like YSZ, produced results equivalent to those of the conventional Ni-YSZ and LSM-YSZ electrode configurations.Additionally, the interconnected nano scale particle networks created by infiltration have greatly improved the performances of both single-component mixedionic electrostatic conductors.