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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ke-Yu, Lai
• Arumugam Manthiram

Titel

CO2-tolerant (Y,Tb)Ba(Co,Ga)4O7 cathodes with low thermal expansion for solid oxide fuel cells

Ist Teil von

• Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability, 2019-01, Vol.7 (14), p.8540-8549

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Oxide catalysts with alkaline earth metal dopants, such as Sr2+ and Ba2+, are widely applied as cathode materials in intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFCs). However, one of the irreversible performance degradation mechanisms is the formation of BaCO3 and SrCO3 on the cathode surface when CO2 in air reacts with the cathode. This study presents a series of CO2-tolerant swedenborgite oxides (Y,Tb)Ba(Co,Ga)4O7+δ with high catalytic activity and relatively low thermal expansion coefficients (TECs, 9.2–10.2 × 10−6 K−1). The doping effect of Tb and Ga on the phase stability in air and CO2-containing air is comprehensively investigated. Unlike the >500% increase in area-specific resistance (ASR) of Co-containing perovskite oxides exposed to 5% CO2 in air in the literature, the ASRs of (Y,Tb)Ba(Co,Ga)4O7+δ–Gd-doped ceria (GDC) composite cathodes only increase by ∼120% at 600 °C. In addition, the ASRs recover to their initial values after switching the gas back to pure air within 1 h, indicating good CO2 tolerance and recovery capability. The low number of oxygen vacancies in (Y,Tb)Ba(Co,Ga)4O7+δ might explain the high CO2 tolerance compared to Co-containing perovskite materials. Furthermore, a high electrochemical performance of 1.17 W cm−2 at 700 °C is demonstrated with an anode-supported single cell and Y0.5Tb0.5BaCo3.2Ga0.8O7+δ–GDC composite cathode.