| Affiliation: | 1. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;2. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China;4. Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark |
| Abstract: | We study the structure, crystallization, and performances of the sealing glasses with the composition (mol.%) of 12Al2O3·8B2O3·40SiO2·40RO (R = Mg, Ca, Sr) for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) before and after isothermal treatment at 700°C, which is within the operation temperature range (600-800°C) of SOFCs. The crystallization behavior has been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction under both dynamic and isothermal conditions. The structural evolution is probed using the Raman and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies. The performances of the sealing glasses are characterized in terms of the coefficient of thermal expansion, the crystallization-induced stress at glass–steel interface. We find that strong crystallization occurs at the operation temperature (700°C) far below the crystallization onset temperature measured by DSC. The structure origin of this anomalous crystallization is discussed in terms of structural heterogeneity of the three studied glasses. We determine the residual stress at the interface between the Ca-containing glass and the steel after isothermal treatment at 700°C for 48 h, but this stress does not lead to falling off the glass layer from the steel. This indicates that this glass is a good candidate to be applied in SOFCs. |
