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Nanoscale Surface and Interface Engineering of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Atomic Layer Deposition

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Recently, atomic layer deposition (ALD) has drawn much attention as a suitable tool for fabrication and engineering of high performance fuel cell catalysts and electrodes. Intrinsic merits of ALD enable synthesis of conformal and uniform film even at a sub-nm scale with excellent stoichiometry control and reproducibility. Leveraging the unique characteristics, ALD has proven its promising potential as a solution to achieve two major challenges of solid oxide fuel cell research: sluggish kinetics at low operational temperatures and long-term stability. In this review, recent efforts to address the challenges by the use of ALD-based functionalization of surfaces and interfaces of cell components are discussed.

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The authors acknowledge the support from the NSF CAREER Award (DMR 1753383) and the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH).

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  1. Alireza Karimaghaloo, Junmo Koo and Hung-Sen Kang contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Merced, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, 95343, USA

    Alireza Karimaghaloo, Hung-Sen Kang & Min Hwan Lee

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea

    Junmo Koo & Joon Hyung Shim

  3. Micro/Nano Scale Manufacturing Group, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, 143 Hanggaulro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, 15588, Republic of Korea

    Shin Ae Song

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Karimaghaloo, A., Koo, J., Kang, HS. et al. Nanoscale Surface and Interface Engineering of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Atomic Layer Deposition. Int. J. of Precis. Eng. and Manuf.-Green Tech. 6, 611–628 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40684-019-00090-9

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