Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells IV, Volume 29, Issue 5

Dr. Narottam P. Bansal is a Senior Research Scientist in the Ceramic Branch, Materials and Structures Division, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH. He received his Ph. D. in 1973. He held post-doctoral research appointments at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Troy, NY. He has carried out research in a number of areas such as: solid oxide fuel cells, fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites for high-temperature structural applications in turbine engines, fiber-matrix interface, thermal and environmental barrier coatings, high-temperature superonductors, sol-gel Processing, refractory glass-ceramics, crystallization kinetics, phase transformations, IR-transmitting materials, electroanalytical techniques, ionic diffusion in melts. Dr. Bansal is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He is recipient of NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievements (1998), R & D 100 Award (2001) and Hind Rattan Award (1993) from NRI Society of India. He has also received numerous Innovative Technology Development Awards and Tech Brief Awards from NASA. He has been listed in more than 30 different Who's Who in the U.S. and abroad. So far, he has been organizer and Program Chair of 31 International Symposia and editor of 23 Conference proceeding volumes. He is author/co-author of 4 books, 6 invited book chapters, 3 review articles, 8 NASA Tech Briefs, and 215 research papers including 92 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has been awarded seven U.S. Patents, so far. Dr. Bansal has also served on the international advisory boards of a number of international conferences. He was a member of the Technical Committee 18 of International Commission on Glass and Chair of its subcommittee on Diffusion in Glass Forming Melts. He is a member of the Technical Committee V.8.1 of International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). He is an active member of the American Ceramic Society since 1982. As a member of the Engineering Ceramics Division, Dr. Bansal has served as chair of the Awards and Scholarship Committee. He is a past chair of the Northern Ohio section of the American Ceramic Society.

• Preface. Introduction.TECHNICAL OVERVIEW.Research Activities and Progress on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells at USTC (Guangyao Meng, Ranran Peng, Changrong Xia, and Xingqin Liu).CELL AND STACK DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE.Development of Micro Tubular SOFCs and Stacks for Low 21 Temperature Operation under 550°C (Toshio Suzuki, Toshiaki Yarnaguchi, Yoshinobu Fujishiro, Masanobu Awano, and Yoshihiro Funahashi).The Properties and Performance of Micro-Tubular (Less than 1 mm OD) Anode Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (N. Sarnrnes, J.Pusz, A. Smirnova, A. Moharnrnadi, F. Serincan, Z. Xiaoyu, M. Awano, T. Suzuki, T. Yarnaguchi, Y. Fujishiro, and Y. Funahashi).Performance of the Gen 3.1 Liquid Tin Anode SOFC on Direct JP-8 Fuel (M.T. Koslowske, W.A. McPhee, L.S. Baternan, M.J. Slaney, J. Bentley and T.T. Tao).Effect of Interconnect Creep on Long-Term Performance of SOFC of One Cell Stacks (W.N. Liu, X. Sun, and M.A. Khaleel).Effects of Compositions and Microstructures of Thin Anode Layer on the Performance of Honeycomb SOFCs Accumulated with Multi Micro Channel Cells (Toshiaki Yarnaguchi, Sota Shirnizu, Toshio Suzuki, Yoshinobu Fujishiro, and Masanobu Awano).FABRICATION.Formation of Gas Sealing and Current Collecting Layers for Honeycomb-Type SOFCs (Sota Shirnizu, Toshiaki Yarnaguchi, Yoshinobu Fujishiro, and Masanobu Awano).CHARACTERIZATION AND TESTING.Evaluating Redox Stability of Ni-YSZ Supported SOFCs Based on Simple Layer Models (Trine Klernenser and Bent F. Sarensen).Degradation Phenomena in SOFCs with Metallic Interconnects (Norbert H. Menzler, Frank Tietz, Martin Brarn, lzaak C. Vinke, and L.G.J. (Bert) de Haart).Pressure and Gas Concentration Effects on Voltage vs. Current Characteristics of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Electrolyzer (V. Hugo Schmidt and Laura M. Lediaev).In-Situ Temperature-Dependent X-Ray Diffraction Study of Ba(Zro.8.xCexY0.2)03C-, eramics (C.-S. Tu, R. R. Chien, S.-C. Lee, C.-L. Tsai, V. H. Schmidt, A. Keith, S. A. Hall, and N. P. Santorsola).Evaluation of the Residual Stress Profiles of Practical Size Lanthanum Gallate-Based Cells in Radial Direction (Hiroyuki Yoshida, Mitsunobu Kawano, Koji Hashino, Toru Inagaki, Hiroshi Deguchi, Yoshiyuki Kubota, and Kei Hosoi).ELECTRODES.Effect of Spray Parameters on the Microstructure of La,-,Sr,MnO, Cathode Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis (Hoda Arnani Harnedani, Klaus-Herrnann Dahrnen, Dongsheng Li, and Harnid Garrnestani).Examination of Chromium’s Effects on a LSMNSZ Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode (T.A. Cruse, M. Krumpelt, B.J. Ingrarn, S. Wang, and P.A. Salvador).Evolution of Ni-YSZ Microstructure and Its Relation to Steam Reforming Activity and YSZ Phase Stability (D. L. King, J.J. Strohm, P. Singh).Synthesis and Characterization of Ni Impregnated Porous YSZ Anodes for SOFCs (C. Anand Singh.and Venkatesan V. Krishnan).The Reduction of NiO-YSZ Anode Precursor and Its Effect on the Microstructure and Elastic Properties at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures (Thangamani Nithyanantham, Saraswathi Nambiappan Thangavel, Sornnath Biswas, and Sukumar Bandopadhyay).Microstructure Analysis on Network-Structure Formation of SOFC Anode from NiO-SDC Composite Particles Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Technique (Hiroyuki Yoshida, Mitsunobu Kawano, Koji Hashino, Toru Inagaki, Seiichi Suda, Koichi Kawahara, Hiroshi Ijichi, and Hideyuki Nagahara).Functionally Graded Composite Electrodes for Advanced Anode- Supported, Intermediate-Temperature SOFC (Juan L. Sepulveda, Raouf 0. Loutfy, Sekyung Chang, Peiwen Li, and Ananth Kotwal).ELECTROLYTES.High Efficiency Lanthanide Doped Ceria-Zirconia Layered Electrolyte for SOFC (Juan L. Sepulveda, Sekyung Chang, and Raouf 0. Loutfy).Oxygen Ion Conductance in Epitaxially Grown Thin Film Electrolytes (S. Thevuthasan, Z. Yu, S. Kuchibhatla, L.V. Saraf, 0. A. Marina, V. Shutthanandan, P. Nachimuthu, and C. M. Wang).INTERCONNECTS.Development of New Type Current Collector for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (Tsuneji Kameda, Kentaro Matsunaga, Masato Yoshino, Takayuki Fukasawa, Norikazu Osada, Masahiko Yamada, and Yoshiyasu ltoh).Electrical Conductivity and Oxidation Studies of Ceramiclntermetallic Materials for SOFC Interconnect Application (Yukun Pang, Hua Xie, and Rasit Koc).SEALS.Improvement in Interface Resistance of Conductive Gas-Tight Sealing Materials for Stacking Micro-SOFC (Seiichi Suda, Koichi Kawahara, Kaori Jono, and Masahiko Matsumiya)ELECTROLYZER.Carbon Dioxide Electrolysis for Production of Synthesis Gas in Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (Sune Dalgaard Ebbesen and Mogens Mogensen).Author Index.