Zirconium dioxide-based electrode-electrolyte pair (variants), method for the production thereof (variants) and organogel
OwnerGalina Hilchenko, Ata Myatiyevinventors
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This invention relates to the field of electric power generation by direct transformation of the chemical energy of gaseous fuel to electric power by means of high-temperature solid oxide fuel cells. The invention can be used for the fabrication of miniaturized thin filmed oxygen sensors, in electrochemical devices for oxygen extraction from air and in catalytic electrochemical devices for waste gas cleaning or hydrocarbon fuels conversion. The technical objective of the invention is the production of a low-cost electrode-electrolyte pair having an elevated electrochemical efficiency as the most important structural part of a highly efficient, economically advantageous and durable fuel cell. Furthermore, the invention achieves additional objectives. The achievement of these objectives is exemplified with two electrode-electrolyte pair designs and their fabrication methods, including with the use of a special organogel.
Electrode-electrolyte pair comprising a microporous electrode to the surface of which is deposited a multilayered solid electrolyte based on zirconium dioxide with stabilizing additions, the solid electrolyte consisting of the inner nanoporous three-dimensional solid electrolyte layer with a grain size of within 1000 nm which fills, at least partially, the surface pores of the microporous electrode to a depth of 5-50 μm, and a dense outer electrode layer with a grain size of within 1000 nm located on the surface of said inner layer.
Electrode-electrolyte pair fabrication method comprising the formation, on the microporous electrode surface, of a partially electrode-penetrating multilayered solid electrolyte based on zirconium dioxide with stabilizing additions, to which end the microporous electrode surface is initially impregnated with organogel consisting of particles of zirconium dioxide with stabilizing additions and an organic solution containing organic salts of zirconium and the stabilizing metals, and destruction of the organogel organic part that leads to the chemical deposition of the inner nanoporous three-dimensional solid electrolyte layer on the electrode surface, following which the inner organogel layer is deposited onto the surface, said layer consisting of nanosized particles of zirconium dioxide with stabilizing additions and an organic solution containing organic salts of zirconium and the stabilizing metals, and destruction of the organogel organic part that leads to the chemical deposition of the dense outer layer of the multilayered electrolyte onto the inner layer surface.
Organogel used for the fabrication of the electrode-electrolyte pair contains nanosized particles of zirconium dioxide with stabilizing additions and an organic solution containing organic salts of zirconium and the stabilizing metals, a mixture of branching carbonic acids with the general formula H(CH2—CH2)nCR′R″—COOH, where R′ is CH3, R″ is CmH(m+1) and m is from 2 to 6, with an average molecular weight of 140-250.
Electrode-electrolyte pair comprising a nanoporous electrode to the surface of which is deposited a layer or dense three-dimensioned electrolyte based on zirconium dioxide with stabilizing additions the grain size of which is within 1000 nm, the electrolyte filling the surface pores of the nanoporous electrode to a depth of 1-5 μm.
Electrode-electrolyte pair fabrication method comprising the formation, on the microporous electrode surface, of a dense three-dimensional solid electrolyte layer based on zirconium dioxide with stabilizing additions, for which end the nanoporous electrode surface is initially impregnated with an organic solution containing organic salts of zirconium and the stabilizing metals, a mixture of α-branching carbonic acids with the general formula H(CH2—CH2)nCR′R″—COOH, where R′ is CH3, R″ is CmH(m+1) and m is from 2 to 6, with an average molecular weight of 140-250, and destruction of the organogel organic part that leads to the chemical deposition of the solid electrolyte on the electrode surface.
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