Moreover, electrochemical methods (methanol oxidation reaction and cyclic voltammetry) are first reported ever to be effective characterization tools for the coverage state caused by SMSI.
In addition, the reported results show that electrochemical measurements in molten oxides coupled with mass-transfer models are complementary characterization tools for oxygen chemistry.
Characterization tools for gas diffusion media are presented, flow field types and design criteria are discussed and the effect of both components on the performance of a fuel cell are highlighted.
Dr. Evgenyi Shalaev, Allergan, presented a panorama of new characterization tools for understanding amorphous structure and properties.
Düren, T., Millange, F., Férey, G., Walton, K. S. & Snurr, R. Q. Calculating geometric surface areas as a characterization tool for metal-organic frameworks.
Recently, synchrotron X-ray diffraction computed tomography (XRD-CT) has proven to be a powerful materials characterization tool for non-destructive investigation of functional materials, like heterogeneous catalysts, catalytic membrane reactors and battery cells22,23,24, yielding spatially-resolved diffraction signals25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37.
This work not only demonstrates the feasibility to perform spatially-resolved studies of full cells, but also adds a very powerful characterization tool for the SOFC community to exploit and perform in situ and in operando chemical tomographic experiments.
Raman scattering is known to be a unique characterization tool for carbon-based materials such as graphite, diamond, graphene and nanostructured carbons.
Positron annihilation technique has been developed into a powerful characterization tool for the study of free volume and free volume fraction in polymers.
