Materials for next generation SOFCs

Abstract

New materials are constantly identified as potential components of next generation energy technologies. Significantly, new engineering solutions have also been proposed that will enhance the performance of both these new and also existing materials. Here the latest developments in both materials and device engineering are summarised focusing on the potential for enhanced ionic mobility achieved through engineered structures utilising thin film deposition technologies. In the second section of this work the promise of new materials will be discussed, considering the layered and double perovskite structure types as next generation electrodes. © Springer-Verlag London 2013.