| In order to increase the performance of anodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) applications, many researchers have sought to synthesize nanostructured powders of Ni/Cu- YSZ by processes such as sol-gel, co-precipitation, deposition, combustion synthesis, infiltration, among others. From these processes, the particles of Ni and/or Cu must be distributed homogeneously in the matrix of YSZ at the nanometer scale. The infiltration process has been seen as a feasible technique to fulfill those requirements. Thus, this work will present the stateof- art regarding materials and processing necessary to obtain Ni/Cu-YSZ nanostructured anodes from nanosized powders aiming to improve of efficiency of these devices by increasing of triple phase boundary size. The manufacturing will be discussed in this review including sintering of nanocrystalline composites. |
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