A short oxygen plasma treatment applied on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte of a solid oxide fuel cell has effectively improved the adhesion between the nanoporous Pt thin film cathode and the YSZ electrolyte, which stabilizes the electrochemically active nanoscale features of Pt at YSZ contact interface. After operating at 450 °C for 10 h, the cell with YSZ surface treated by oxygen plasma has retained 88.2% of the fuel cell current output, and the increase of R_ohm is approximately 20% lower in the cell with YSZ than the non-treated YSZ. This is because the ion incorporation reaction sites which usually occurs at Pt/YSZ interface is retained by the preservation of nanoporous Pt features at YSZ contact interface.

在固体氧化物燃料电池的氧化钇稳定氧化锆（YSZ）电解质上进行的短氧等离子体处理有效地改善了纳米多孔Pt薄膜阴极与YSZ电解质之间的附着力，从而稳定了Pt在YSZ接触时的电化学活性纳米尺度特征界面。在450°C下运行10小时后，经氧等离子体处理的YSZ表面电池已保留了88.2％的燃料电池电流输出，而YSZ电池中R _ohm的增加比非SZ电池低了约20％。处理过的YSZ。这是因为通常在Pt / YSZ界面处发生的离子结合反应位点通过在YSZ接触界面处保留纳米多孔Pt特征而得以保留。