RT Journal Article
T1 Microwave synthesis & sintering of Sm and Ca co-doped ceria ceramics
A1 Prado Gonjal, Jesús de la Paz
A1 Heuguet, Romain
A1 Muñoz Gil, Daniel
A1 Rivera Calzada, Alberto Carlos
A1 Marinel, Sylvain
A1 Morán, Emilio
A1 Schmidt, Rainer
AB In this work we report on the combined use of microwave (MW) heating sources for the powder synthesis and the ceramic sintering of Sm and Ca co-doped ceria Ce_(0.8)Sm_(0.18)Ca_(0.02)O_(1.9) polycrystalline materials for potential application as an electrolyte in intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFCs).We investigate the crystal structure, ceramic microstructure and the oxygen ion conductivity in detail and compare the latter to conventionally sintered ceramics. MW sintering of ceramic pellets leads to only slightly increased resistivity as compared to conventional sintering, but offers massive energy and time savings for potential industrial production processes. Exceptionally high oxygen ion conductivity without any significant electronic contribution was found in MW synthesized and MW sintered pellets, where the total resistivity, composed of grain boundary and bulk contributions, was found to be in the range of 0.5-1 kΩ at 500 ºC. Sm-and Ca co-doped ceria may be well-suited for electrolyte materials in IT-SOFCs.
PB Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
SN 0360-3199
YR 2015
FD 2015-12-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24319
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24319
LA eng
NO © 2016 Elsevier B.V. J.P.-G. acknowledges financial help from the Community of Madrid (Materyener S2009/PPQ-1626) and a PhD scholarship from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. R.S. wishes to acknowledge the MICINN/MINECO in Spain for granting a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. Furthermore, this work was supported by the MICINN/MINECO through grant no. MAT 2007-31034 and by the European Union through the FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN SOPRANO network. The authors wish to express their gratitude to Jacobo Santamaría and Carlos León for allowing use of and for assistance with the Novocontrol impedance spectroscopy facilities. Thanks to María José Torralvo for carrying out BET measurements.
NO Unión Europea. FP7
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 25 abr 2026