Abstract
Present status and future prospect in the fuel cell field were introduced in this chapter. To explain the important future prospect in the materials science of fuel cells, the authors focused on the materials science in the solid oxide fuel cell field after briefly summarizing present status of research and development in the fuel cell field. Also the authors reintroduced the research results to highlight the important role of the ultimate analysis of microstructure, simulation for a reasonable conclusion of microanalysis, and the processing route design based on microanalysis. The usefulness of the combined approach of microanalysis, simulation, and the processing route design is presented.
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The authors are grateful to Professor Alastair N. Cormack (Alfred University, USA) for his kind advice in our simulation work. Also we appreciate the fruitful collaborative works to Professor Fei Ye (Dalian University of Technology, China), Professor Ding Rong Ou (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Professor Jin Zou (The Queensland University, Australia), Dr. Graeme Auchterlonie (The Queensland University, Australia), and Dr. Zhipeng Li (National Institute for Ma terials Science, Japan).
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Mori, T., Drennan, J. (2013). Advanced Materials for Fuel Cells. In: Kauffman, J., Lee, KM. (eds) Handbook of Sustainable Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8939-8_100
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