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Description:: Technology has advanced rapidly, especially in the twenty-first century, influencing our day-to-day life on unprecedented levels. Most such advances in technology are closely linked to, and often driven by, the discovery and design of new materials. It follows that the discovery of new materials can not only improve existing technologies...
Keyword:: Materials Discovery, Density Functional Theory, Electrochemistry, Energy Materials, and Batteries
Subject:: Materials Science and Engineering
Creator:: Soo Kim
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2019
Date Modified:: 01/10/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Nano-structured mixed ionic and electronic conducting (MIEC) materials have garnered intense interest in electrode development for solid oxide fuel cells due to their high surface areas which allow for effective catalytic activity and low polarization resistances. In particular, composite solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cathodes consisting of ionic conducting scaffolds...
Keyword:: Degradation, Nanoparticles, Cathodes, SOFC, Infiltration, and Electrochemistry
Subject:: Materials Science and Engineering
Creator:: Ann Virginia Call
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/13/2018
Date Modified:: 03/13/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Growing energy and climate concerns in the United States and across the world demand improvements in energy efficiency, conservation, and renewability. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are highly efficient devices that electrochemically convert the chemical energy of a fuel to electricity. These devices can operate on natural gas as a...
Keyword:: Electrochemistry
Subject:: Materials Science and Engineering
Creator:: Patrick Kevin Duffy
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/20/2018
Date Modified:: 02/20/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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