Fabrication of microporous structures for the anode of a thin film solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC(s)) using controlled etching process has led us to increased power density and increased cell robustness. Micropores were etched in the nickel anode by both wet and electrochemical etching processes. The samples etched electrochemically showed incomplete etching of the nickel leaving linked nickel islands inside the pores. Samples which were wet- etched showed clean pores with no nickel island residues. Moreover, the sample with linked nickel islands in the anode pores showed higher output power density as compared to the sample with clean pores. This enhancement is related to the enlargement of the surface of contact between the fuel-anode-electrolyte (the triple-phase boundary).
Self-organization processes in semiconductor materials on the example of nanostructuring of por-Si at long anodic etching of p-type Si in the electrolyte with internal source of the current are shown. In conditions of a “soft” etching of the Si point defects are formed and in the subsequently occurs their spatial-temporal ordering. This leads to the ordering pores and the nanostructuring of por-Si. Self-organization mechanism of Si nanocrystallites islets is described by the effects of the elastically-deformative, defectively-deformative and capillary-fluctuation forces.
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