Carbon deposition in porous nickel/yttria-stabilized zirconia anode under methane atmosphere

A commercial solid oxide fuel cell with a Ni/YSZ anode was characterized under a pure methane atmosphere. The amount of deposited carbon increased with an increase in temperature but decreased when the temperature exceeded 700°C. The reactivity of carbon decreased with increasing deposition temperature. Filamentous carbon was deposited from...

Boron doping induced thermal conductivity enhancement of water-based 3C-Si(B)C nanofluids

In this paper, the fabrication and thermal conductivity (TC) of water-based nanofluids using boron (B)-doped SiC as dispersions are reported. Doping B into the <i>β</i>-SiC phase leads to the shrinkage of the SiC lattice due to the substitution of Si atoms (0.134 nm radius) by smaller B atoms (0.095 nm radius). The presence of B in the SiC...

Synthesis of Al₄SiC₄ powders via carbothermic reduction: Reaction and grain growth mechanisms

Highly pure Al₄SiC₄ powders were prepared by carbothermic reduction at 2173 K using Al₂O₃, SiO₂, and graphite as raw materials. The obtained Al₄SiC₄ powders owned hexagonal plate-like grains with a diameter of about 200–300 μm and a thickness of about 2–6 μm. Based...