The present application relates to a layer of an oxidant electrode having hygrophobic and current collecting properties, and electrochemical metal-air cell utilizing the same.

A solid oxide fuel cell comprising a cathode, an electrolyte, a functional layer and an anode support. The anode support comprises A-B-C: A is a nitrate, an oxide, a salt or a carbonate selected from the group of: alkali, alkaline oxide, alkaline earth metal or combinations thereof, B is selected from the group of: Fe, Ni, Cu, Co or combinations thereof, and C is selected from the group of: PSZ, YSZ, SSZ, SDC, Ce doped SSZ, GDC or combinations thereof. In the solid oxide fuel cell A ranges from about 0 to about 20 wt % of the anode support, B ranges from about 0.1 to about 70 wt % of the anode support and C ranges from about 0.1 to about 60 wt % of the anode support.

The present invention relates to a protonic ceramic fuel cell and a method of making the same. More specifically, the method relates to a cost-effective route which utilizes a single moderate-temperature (less than or equal to about 1400 C.) sintering step to achieve the sandwich structure of a PCFC single cell (dense electrolyte, porous anode, and porous cathode bone). The PCFC layers are stably connected together by the intergrowth of proton conducting ceramic phases. The resulted PCFC single cell exhibits excellent performance (about 450 mW/cm.sup.2 at about 500 C.) and stability (greater than about 50 days) at intermediate temperatures (less than or equal to about 600 C.). The present invention also relates to a two step method for forming a PCFC, and the resulting PCFC.

The present invention relates to a core-shell structured composite powder for a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and more particularly, to a core-shell structured composite powder for a SOFC having a new structure in which nickel, zirconium and yttrium are stably formed in a core shell structure to improve sinterability and conductivity while preventing a fuel electrode from being deformed due to coarsening and contraction of nickel during operation.

A catalyst layer including an electrocatalyst and an oxygen evolution catalyst, wherein the oxygen evolution catalyst includes a crystalline metal oxide including: (i) one of more first metals selected from the group consisting of yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, sodium, potassium, indium, thallium, tin, lead, antimony and bismuth; (ii) one or more second metals selected from the group consisting of Ru, Ir, Os and Rh; and (iii) oxygen
characterized in that: (a) the atomic ratio of first metal(s):second metal(s) is from 1:1.5 to 1.5:1 (b) the atomic ratio of (first metal(s)+second metal(s)):oxygen is from 1:1 to 1:2 is disclosed.

An air electrode material according to the present disclosure contains a plurality of composite particles, wherein each of the composite particles contains a core particle and a plurality of covering particles covering the core particle, the core particle is formed of a material with catalytic activity for an oxygen reduction reaction, the covering particles are formed of an electrically conductive material and are mechanically bonded to the core particles or other covering particles, and the median size of the core particles ranges from 100 to 1000 times the average primary particle size of the covering particles.

A metal-supported cell comprises a laminate wherein a fuel electrode layer and a solid electrolyte layer are sequentially arranged in this order on a front surface of a metal support provided with a pore continuing from the front surface to the back surface. The solid electrolyte layer covers all parts of the surface of the fuel electrode layer, the parts being not in contact with the metal support. The peripheral part of the solid electrolyte layer is in contact with the front surface of the metal support. The metal support has a metal oxide layer. The fuel electrode layer contains NiO and Ni with molar ratio NiO/(Ni+NiO) of 45% or more, while containing gadolinium-doped ceria. The solid electrolyte layer mainly contains scandia-stabilized zirconia, while containing 0.1-10.0 mol of Bi atoms per 100 mol of Zr atoms having cross-sectional void fraction of 5.0% or less.

Solid oxide electrochemical devices, methods for making the electrochemical devices, and methods of using the electrochemical devices are provided. The electrochemical devices comprise a plurality of stacked functional layers that are formed by a combination of three-dimensional (3D) extrusion printing and two-dimensional (2D) casting techniques.

Nickel oxide particles contain molybdenum. In the nickel oxide particles, the molybdenum may be unevenly distributed in a surface layer of the nickel oxide particles. A crystallite diameter of a [100] plane of the nickel oxide particles may be 240 nm or more. A crystallite diameter of a [101] plane of the nickel oxide particles may be 220 nm or more. A median diameter D.sub.50 of the nickel oxide particles calculated by a laser diffraction/scattering method may be 10.00 ?m or more and 1000.00 ?m or less. A method for producing the nickel oxide particles includes calcining a nickel compound in presence of a molybdenum compound. The molybdenum compound may be at least one compound selected from a group including molybdenum trioxide, lithium molybdate, potassium molybdate and sodium molybdate. In the method for producing the nickel oxide particles, a calcination temperature may be 800? C. or higher and 1600? C. or lower.

The electrochemical cell according to the present invention has an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The cathode contains a main phase and a second phase. The main phase is configured with a perovskite oxide which is expressed by the general formula ABO.sub.3 and includes at least one of Sr and La at the A site. The second phase is configured with SrSO.sub.4 and (Co, Fe) .sub.3O.sub.4. An occupied surface area ratio of the second phase in a cross section of the cathode is less than or equal to 10.5%.