Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 3, Issue 31, Pages 15913-15919Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ta03264d
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [51402109]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China [S2013010014883]
- Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry [(2013)1792]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, China [2013ZM051]
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A solid oxide electrolysis cell with novel asymmetric-porous structured electrodes has been fabricated by the combination of freeze-drying tape-casting and impregnation methods. The electrodes possess unique channel-like pores with nano-or sub-micron-sized catalysts homogeneously coated on the inner face of the porous scaffold. The straight channel-like pores in the electrodes facilitate mass transport while the nano-or sub-micron-sized catalysts promote the electrode electrochemical reactions. The cell demonstrates low electrode polarization resistance values of 0.27, 0.19 and 0.14 Omega cm(2) at OCV in 50 vol% H2O-25 vol% H-2-25 vol% CO2 at 800, 850 and 950 degrees C, respectively. The cell DC voltage-current density dependence is generally linear at all temperatures, and high current densities of 0.8, 1.1 and 1.66 A cm(-2) for 50 vol% H2O-25 vol% H-2-25 vol% CO2 co-electrolysis have been obtained with 1.30 V applied voltage at 800, 850 and 900 degrees C, respectively. Compared to that of the cell fabricated by conventional or phase-inversion methods, the mass transportation limitation phenomenon in the porous electrodes is mitigated and cell performance is greatly improved.
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