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    Effect of heat treatment on pitting corrosion resistance of 6061 Al/SiCP composite coated by the cerium oxide film in 3.5 N NaCl solution
    (2011) Rajasekaran, S.; Udayashankar, N.K.; Nayak, J.
    One of the main drawbacks of 6061 Al/SiCP composite is its poor pitting corrosion resistance in the aggressive environment containing chloride ions, such as seawater, for example. The present article deals with the investigations of effects of aging on the corrosion behavior of 6061 Al/SiCP composite and of the heat treatment on the pitting corrosion resistance of 6061 Al/SiCP composite coated by cerium oxide prepared by chemical bath technique. Potentiodynamic polarization test was used to study the corrosion behavior of cerium oxide coatings in 3. 5N NaCl solution. The microstructure of cerium oxide was examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the formed phases were identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The pitting corrosion resistance of the cerium oxide coating was found to be improved after heat treatment at 300°C for 30 min. © 2011 Allerton Press, Inc.
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    Record-low sintering-temperature (600 °c) of solid-oxide fuel cell electrolyte
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2016) Prasad Dasari, H.P.; Ahn, K.; Park, S.-Y.; Hong, J.; Kim, H.; Yoon, K.J.; Son, J.-W.; Kim, B.-K.; Lee, H.-W.; Lee, J.-H.
    One of the major problems arising with Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) electrolyte is conventional sintering which requires a very high temperature (>1300 °C) to fully densify the electrolyte material. In the present study, the sintering temperature of SOFC electrolyte is drastically decreased down to 600 °C. Combinational effects of particle size reduction, liquid-phase sintering mechanism and microwave sintering resulted in achieving full density in such a record-low sintering temperature. Gadolinium doped Ceria (GDC) nano-particles are synthesized by co-precipitation method, Lithium (Li), as an additional dopant, is used as liquid-phase sintering aid. Microwave sintering of this electrolyte material resulted in decreasing the sintering temperature to 600 °C. Micrographs obtained from Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscopy (SEM/TEM) clearly pointed a drastic growth in grain-size of Li-GDC sample (?150 nm) than compared to GDC sample (<30 nm) showing the significance of Li addition. The sintered Li-GDC samples displayed an ionic conductivity of ?1.00 × 10-2 S cm-1 at 600 °C in air and from the conductivity plots the activation energy is found to be 0.53 eV. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Praseodymium doped ceria as electrolyte material for IT-SOFC applications
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2018) Shajahan, I.; Ahn, J.; Nair, P.; Medisetti, S.; Patil, S.; Niveditha, V.; Uday Bhaskar Babu, G.; Prasad Dasari, H.P.; Lee, J.-H.
    Praseodymium-doped ceria (PDC, Ce0.9Pr0.1O2) electrolyte material for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFCs) has been successfully synthesised by EDTA-citrate method. From X-Ray diffraction (XRD), fluorite structure along with a crystallite size of 5.4 nm is obtained for PDC nanopowder calcined at 350 °C/24 h. Raman spectroscopy confirmed the structure, presence of oxygen vacancies with the manifestation of the main peak at 457 cm?1 and with a secondary peak at 550 cm?1. From Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) analysis, the average particle size is around 7–10 nm and selected area electron diffraction (SAED) patterns further confirmed the fluorite structure of PDC nanopowder. The PDC nanopowder displayed a BET surface area of 65 m2/g with a primary particle size of ?13 nm (calculated from BET surface area). Dilatometer studies revealed a multi-step shrinkage behaviour with the multiple peaks at 522, 1171 and 1461 °C which may be originated due to the presence of multiple size hard agglomerates. The PDC electrolyte pellet sintered at 1500 °C displayed an ionic conductivity of 1.213E-03 S cm?1 along with an activation energy of 1.28eV. Instead of a single fluorite structure, XRD of sintered PDC pellet showed multiple structures (Fluorite structure (CeO2) and cubic structure (PrO2). © 2018 Elsevier B.V.