The LSCF cathode
LSCF is a relatively new material and over the past ten years or so been the subject of research in many countries, particularly the USA, mainly into its potential use as a cathode in fuel cells. A search on the US Department of Energy's website (http://www.energy.gov/index.htm) gives a good idea of the interest that LSCF is still arousing in the energy community. Similarly, there are many companies taking advantage of this aspect of the material's behaviour. For example, American Elements, the US's leading manufacturer of engineered and advanced material products, specialises in producing LSCF for fuel cell cathode applications utilising solid state processing to produce single phase perovskite structures with various doping levels and surface areas for use in thin film layers. It comes in several different formulations, depending on the potential application.
It’s a similar story with fuelcellmaterials.com, whose line of perovskite electrode materials based on LSCF also offers improved low-temperature performance for solid oxide fuel cells and ceramic oxygen generation.
