Research Information

Area of Research- Material Science, Fuel Cell Electrolyte Material

Topic- Enhancement of Ionic Conductivity of Ceria Based Electrolyte for I.T. SOFCs by using nano-composite approach

Research Skill-

Materials preparation skills: I have good experience of synthesizing composite and Co-Doped material by hydrothermal, co-precipitation, spin coating, and microwave combustion synthesis methods. I have fair knowledge about Hydrothrmal synthesis.
Materials analysis skills: I have well data fitting hand on structural refinement using Rietveld method through software like Full Prof. I also used unit cell determination software’s like VESTA, DIMOND, and POWDER cell. Profile fitting hand on OriginLab software, Fit YK. Impedance data modeling by Z-view and Nova 1.11 software programme. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy spectra fitting by XPSPEAK41.
Instrument operational skills: Handling of complex impedance spectroscopy, Microwave furnace, UV-Visible Spectrophotometer, LCR meter, Spin coating unit etc. (Autolab + FRA Model 204), microwave synthesis assembly.

Research Paper-

1) Effect of sintering temperature on structural and electrical properties of co-doped ceria based electrolyte material for IT-SOFCs

2) Double-Dopant induced local structural changes and ionic conductivity of doped ceria system: As solid electrolytes for electrochemical devices