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Characterization of local morphology and availability of triple-phase boundaries in solid oxide cell electrodes

Jan Van Herle, Marco Cantoni, Arata Nakajo, Pierre Burdet, Giorgio Rinaldi

The performance of solid oxide cells is known to be dependent upon the density of three phase boundaries (TPB), but the potential for improving their effective electrocatalytic activity by morphological adjustments is imprecisely known. A spilling algorith ...

2019

Evolution of 3-D Transport Pathways and Triple-Phase Boundaries in the Ni-YSZ Hydrogen Electrode upon Fuel Cell or Electrolysis Cell Operation

Jan Van Herle, Arata Nakajo, Marco Cantoni, Pierre Burdet

The degradation of the Ni-YSZ electrode was investigated after SOFC or SOEC operation for up to 4,700 h and 10,700 h, respectively. 3-D FIB-SEM serial sectioning combined with 3-D EDS elemental mapping allowed the measurement of structural, material and el ...

2017

Strontium Migration at the GDC-YSZ Interface of Solid Oxide Cells in SOFC and SOEC Modes

Jan Van Herle, Marco Cantoni, Emad Oveisi, Arata Nakajo, Pierre Burdet, Giorgio Rinaldi

Strontium migration from the oxygen electrode to the interface between the electrolyte and interlayer was investigated in solid oxide cells in fuel cell (SOFC) and electrolysis (SOEC) modes. Four samples were imaged by focused ion beam scanning electron mi ...

2017

Post-test Analysis on a Solid Oxide Cell Stack Operated for 10,700 Hours in Steam Electrolysis Mode

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Emad Oveisi, Pierre Burdet, Giorgio Rinaldi

A solid oxide short stack composed of 6 Ni-YSZ supported cells, YSZ electrolyte and GDC-LSC oxygen electrode has been tested for 10,700 hours in steam electrolysis. Initial degradation was followed by a global stabilization of the performance after lowerin ...

2017

Hardness and microstructural variation of Al-Mg-Mn-Sc-Zr alloy

Pierre Burdet

Variations of Vickers hardness were observed in Al-Mg-Mn alloy and Al-Mg-Mn-Sc-Zr alloy at different ageing times, ranging from a peak value of 81.2 HV at 54 ks down to 67.4 HV at 360 ks, below the initial hardness value, 71.8 HV at 0 ks for the case of Al ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Enhanced Quantification for 3D Energy Dispersive Spectrometry: Going Beyond the Limitation of Large Volume of X-Ray Emission

Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, Pierre Burdet

This paper presents a method developed to quantify three-dimensional energy dispersive spectrometry (3D EDS) data with voxel size smaller than the volume from which X-rays are emitted. The influence of the neighboring voxels is corrected by applying recurs ...

Cambridge University Press2014

Multivariate statistical analysis as a tool for the segmentation of 3D spectral data

Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, Guillaume Lucas, Pierre Burdet

Acquisition of three-dimensional (3D) spectral data is nowadays common using many different microanalytical techniques. In order to proceed to the 3D reconstruction, data processing is necessary not only to deal with noisy acquisitions but also to segment ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Three-dimensional chemical analysis of laser-welded NiTi–stainless steel wires using a dual-beam FIB

Michel Rappaz, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Marco Cantoni, Pierre Burdet, Jonas Vannod

The biomedical industry has an increasing demand for processes to join dissimilar metals, such as laser welding of NiTi and stainless steel wires. A region of the weld close to the NiTi interface, which previously was shown to be prone to cracking, was fur ...

Elsevier2013

Multivariate Statistical Analysis tool for the interpretation and the quantification of hyperspectral data: application to 3D EDX/FIB images

Guillaume Lucas, Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, Pierre Burdet

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press2012

Three Dimensional Microanalysis by Energy Dispersive Spectrometry : Improved Data Processing

Pierre Burdet

This thesis is focused on a combined microscopy technique: energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) is extended to a three dimensional (3D) microanalysis using a so-called "dual-beam microscope": a scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped with a focused ion ...

EPFL2012