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Tang W, Ding H, Bian W, Regalado Vera CY, Gomez JY, Dong Y, Li J, Wu W, Fan W, Zhou M, Gore C, Blackburn BM, Luo H, Ding D. An Unbalanced Battle in Excellence: Revealing Effect of Ni/Co Occupancy on Water Splitting and Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Triple-Conducting Oxides for Protonic Ceramic Electrochemical Cells. Small 2022; 18:e2201953. [PMID: 35768285 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202201953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 06/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Porous electrodes that conduct electrons, protons, and oxygen ions with dramatically expanded catalytic active sites can replace conventional electrodes with sluggish kinetics in protonic ceramic electrochemical cells. In this work, a strategy is utilized to promote triple conduction by facilitating proton conduction in praseodymium cobaltite perovskite through engineering non-equivalent B-site Ni/Co occupancy. Surface infrared spectroscopy is used to study the dehydration behavior, which proves the existence of protons in the perovskite lattice. The proton mobility and proton stability are investigated by hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) isotope exchange and temperature-programmed desorption. It is observed that the increased nickel replacement on the B-site has a positive impact on proton defect stability, catalytic activity, and electrochemical performance. This doping strategy is demonstrated to be a promising pathway to increase catalytic activity toward the oxygen reduction and water splitting reactions. The chosen PrNi0.7 Co0.3 O3- δ oxygen electrode demonstrates excellent full-cell performance with high electrolysis current density of -1.48 A cm-2 at 1.3 V and a peak fuel-cell power density of 0.95 W cm-2 at 600 °C and also enables lower-temperature operations down to 350 °C, and superior long-term durability.
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Affiliation(s)
- Wei Tang
- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA
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- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
| | - Wenjuan Bian
- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
| | - Clarita Y Regalado Vera
- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA
| | - Joshua Y Gomez
- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
| | - Yanhao Dong
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
| | - Ju Li
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
| | - Wei Wu
- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
| | - WeiWei Fan
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
| | - Meng Zhou
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA
| | - Colin Gore
- Redox Power Systems, LLC, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA
| | - Dong Ding
- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
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