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Fabrication of Dense Gadolinia-Doped Ceria Coatings via Very-Low-Pressure Plasma Spray and Plasma Spray?Physical Vapor Deposition Process

Jing Wen    
Chen Song    
Taikai Liu    
Ziqian Deng    
Shaopeng Niu    
Yapeng Zhang    
Libin Liu and Min Liu    

Resumen

Gadolinia-doped ceria (GDC) is a promising electrolyte material for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (LT-SOFCs). Many works used ceramic sintering methods to prepare the GDC electrolyte, which was mature and reliable but presented difficulties in rapidly preparing a large area of GDC electrolyte without cracks. The low-pressure plasma spray (LPPS) process has the potential to solve this problem, but few studies have been conducted to date. In this work, submicron GDC powder was agglomerated by a spray drying method to achieve the proper granularity with D50 about 10 µm, and then two dense GDC coatings were fabricated with this agglomerated GDC powder using very-low-pressure plasma spray (VLPPS) and plasma spray?physical vapor deposition (PS-PVD), respectively. The results indicate that the two GDC coatings exhibited similar microstructure but with different densification mechanisms. The VLPPS coating was mainly built up in the form of liquid splats, which had lower mechanical properties due to the lower density and crystallinity, while the PS-PVD coating was co-deposited with the vapor clusters and liquid splats, which had higher density, crystallinity, and mechanical properties. It can therefore be concluded that the GDC coating prepared by PS-PVD is more appropriate for the LT-SOFC application.

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