Magnesium tuned triple conductivity and bifunctionality of BaCo0.4Fe0.4Zr0.1Y0.1O3-δ perovskite towards reversible protonic ceramic electrochemical cells

Mingzhuang Liang, Yufei Song, Dongliang Liu, Longwei Xu, Meigui Xu, Guangming Yang, Wei Wang, Wei Zhou, Ran Ran, Zongping Shao

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Abstract

The performance of reversible protonic ceramic electrochemical cells (R-PCECs) was significantly limited, due to lack of suitable air electrode materials specifically designed to match proton conducting electrolyte. Here, we report by doping a small amount of magnesium (5 %), a phase-pure triple conducting Ba(Co0.4Fe0.4Zr0.1Y0.1)0.95Mg0.05O3-δ (BCFZYM) perovskite is developed as an air electrode for R-PCECs. The doping of 5 % Mg effectively enhances oxygen/steam surface exchange, oxygen-ion and proton conductivity, consequently significantly improves catalytic oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR/OER) activities over protonic electrolytes. R-PCECs with the BCFZYM display excellent performances in both fuel cell (850 mW cm-2 at 600 °C) and electrolysis modes (−1244 mA cm-2 at 1.3 V at 600 °C). In addition, the R-PCECs show favorable stability in cycling (110 h), electrolysis (200 h) and fuel cell modes (300 h), demonstrating that BCFZYM air electrode has excellent operating stability.

Original languageEnglish
Article number121868
JournalApplied Catalysis B: Environmental
Volume318
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Dec 2022

Keywords

  • Mg-doping
  • Oxygen evolution reaction
  • Oxygen reduction reaction
  • Perovskite
  • Reversible protonic ceramic electrochemical cells

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