One of the most recent strategies to enhance the
electrode performance is preparing composite materials
leading to an increase of the triple-phase-boundary (TPB)
length. On this way, heteroepitaxial nanocomposite films
such as vertically aligned nanostructures (VANs)
deposited by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) are one of
the most promising and recent approaches to obtain
nanocomposite active layers for energy applications1. In
this work, thin films VANs based on
(La0.8Sr0.2)0.98Fe0.8Ti0.2O3−δ-Ce0.9Gd0.1O1.95 (LSFT-GDC)
electrodes were obtained for their use as functional layers
in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs).