The Effect of Morphology of SOFC Layers Made by 3D Printer on the Electrochemical Properties of the Cell

Subject Areas : Materials synthesis and charachterization

Keyvan Mirzaee Fashalameh ¹ , Zahra Sadeghian ² , Ramin Ebrahimi ³

1 - 1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran 2 Department of Engineering, payam Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran
2 - Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI), Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2021-07-18 Accepted : 2021-10-02 Published : 2021-11-01

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