Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Elastic configurations of self-supported oxide membranes for fuel cells

CATEGORY: FUEL CELLS
Journal of Power Sources, Volume 222, 15 January 2013, Pages 359–366
Elastic configurations of self-supported oxide membranes for fuel cells
K. Kerman(a), T. Tallinen(a), (c), S. Ramanathan(a), L. Mahadevan(a), (b)
a School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
b Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
c Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
Abstract
Ultra-thin oxide films offer potential in energy conversion technologies such as low temperature solid oxide fuel cells and permeation membranes. Understanding their thermo-mechanical stability is important.
Edge clamped, self-supported thin film membranes show hierarchical wrinkles, with the largest wavelengths in the center. Smaller ones arise near the clamped boundary. The largest strains, with tensile stress comparable to the residual stress, are in the vicinity of the clamped boundary.
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