TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ELECTRICAL POWER AND ENERGY - Preferred Components: The solid oxide fuel cell further comprises an interconnect layer positioned adjacent the sulfur tolerant anode current collector layer. The sulfur tolerant anode current collector layer comprises a cermet material that conducts electricity by transport of both electrons and oxygen ions. The ceramic material comprises a mixed conducting electrolyte material. The ceramic material comprises a doped zirconia electrolyte material or a doped ceria electrolyte material.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The mixed conducting electrolyte material comprises a doped ceria electrolyte material, a doped zirconia electrolyte material and/or a lanthanum strontium magnesium gallium oxide (LSGM). The doped ceria electrolyte material comprises a gadolinium doped ceria, a samarium doped ceria, a zirconium doped ceria, a scandium doped ceria, a yttrium doped ceria, a calcium doped ceria, a strontium doped ceria, a rare earth element doped ceria and/or an alkaline earth element doped ceria, and the doped zirconia electrolyte material comprises a yttrium doped zirconia, a scandium doped zirconia, a calcium doped zirconia, a rare earth element doped zirconia and/or an alkaline earth element doped zirconia. The cermet material comprises a ceramic component (20-80 wt.%) that comprises gadolinium doped ceria and/or samarium doped ceria. The mesh or foam further comprises a metallic material. The metallic material comprises nickel, copper and/or ferritic stainless steel. The mesh or foam comprises the cermet material (at least 10 mg/cm2, or at least 20 wt.%). The metallic component comprises nickel and cobalt, and the ceramic component comprises a doped ceria. EXAMPLE - Nickel oxide-cobalt oxide (NiO-CoO) solid solution powder (Ni0.75Co0.25O) containing a small amount of nanoscale samarium-doped ceria (SDC-15, Ce0.85Sm0.15O1.925) was prepared. NiO-CoO/SDC anode precursor powder was used to prepare electrochemically active anode slurry for current collection foams as follows. Samarium-doped ceria powder of the composition (Ce0.85Sm0.15)O1.95 (SDC-15) was prepared to a surface area of 8 m2/g. A mixture was prepared that contained the fine NiO-CoO/SDC precursor powder (450 g) and SDC-15 powder (300 g) with a surface area of 8 m2/g. This powder mixture then was ball milled in acetone with zirconia grinding media and dried. Powder (70.5 g) produced was dispersed in water (27 g) to make a slurry and combining with Duramax D-3021 (RTM: dispersant) (0.41 g), Surfynol SE-F (RTM: surfactant) (0.30 g), and methyl cellulose as a binder (1.29 g). This slurry was slowly ball milled with gadolinium-doped ceria (GDC) media for 16 hours to ensure thorough mixing of the components. The resulting slurry had the composition consisting of NiO0.75CoO0.25 (60 wt.%) and SDC-15 (40 wt.%). The slurry prepared was infiltrated into polymeric foam using a wash-coat technique, and excess slurry was removed using a dense foam roller. The infiltrated polymer template foams were sintered to 1300 degrees C for 2 hours in air to burn out the polymer template leaving the sintered oxide sample remaining. The resulting foam pieces were reduced in a heat treatment to 1300 degrees C in a 5% hydrogen forming gas. Sulfur tolerant cermet foam anode current collectors exhibited high sulfur tolerant properties. The resulting foam was composed of 100% of the sulfur tolerant anode material.