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Integrated Fabrication Processes for Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells Using Thermal Plasma Spray Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

François Gitzhofer ,
Maher Boulos ,
Joachim Heberlein ,
Rudolf Henne ,
Takamasa Ishigaki  and
Toyonobu Yoshida
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In the manufacture of solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), thermal-plasma technology, especially plasma spraying, offers several advantages, the most important of which is the ability to achieve considerably higher deposition rates than those that can be obtained with such approaches as physical or chemical vapor deposition (PVD or CVD). This article describes an international collaborative research project partially funded by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Japan) and carried out at five research laboratories around the world: at the University of Tokyo and National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (NIRIM) in Japan, the University of Minnesota in the United States, the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, and DLR—Stuttgart in Germany. The objective of the project was to conduct a comparative study on the possible use of four thermal-plasma spraying techniques for the integrated fabrication of SOFCs.

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 25 , Issue 7: Thermal Spray Coatings , July 2000 , pp. 38 - 42
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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