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The poor performance of the state of the art materials at intermediate temperatures (600-800℃) hinders the commercialization of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Therefore, new materials are being explored which can meet the required properties of SOFC components for intermediate temperature planar design of SOFCs. The samples SrZr1-xNixO3 (0≤x≤0.20) are synthesized using the conventional solid-state reaction method. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) results indicate the monophasic nature of Ni-doped SrZrO3. The doping of Ni increases the sinterability of the samples. The Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) gives information about the functional groups of the doped and undoped SrZrO3 perovskites. FTIR spectroscopy exhibits five major absorption bands. These bands are mainly indexed with the stretching of Zr-O bands and water molecules. The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the samples is in the required SOFC range i.e. 9-13×10-6 K-1.