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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 511, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.145525
Keywords
Nanoparticles; Symmetrical solid oxide cells; Ruddlesden-Popper oxide; Exsolution; DFT calculation
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51737011, 51877173]
- State of Grid [SGSDJN00FZQT1700446]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017T100750]
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In this work, we report a highly active Ruddlesden-Popper oxide as a symmetrical electrode for solid oxide cells through in-situ exsolution strategy. The Cu nanoparticles-decorated (LaSr)(0.9)Fe0.9Cu0.1O4 (LSFCu) oxide can be simply fabricated by a reducing procedure. The exsolved mechanism of Cu nanoparticle is investigated by the density functional theory (DFT) method. The calculation demonstrates that oxygen releasing is present more energetic in the rocksalt layers, causing the accelerated kinetics of exsolution. The (1 0 0) surface could be the preferential surface for exsolution where take place because of the lowest surface energy. The LSFCu shows a highly electrocatalytic activity as fuel electrode and oxygen electrode simultaneously toward oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and fuel oxidation reaction (FOR) respectively. In fuel cell (FC) mode, the peak power densities are 573 mW cm(-2) and 396 mW cm(-2) at 800 degrees C using humidified H-2 and CH4 as fuels, respectively. Moreover, a very high current density of 1.02 A cm(-2) can also be accomplished at a voltage of 1.2 V in electrolysis cell (EC) mode, implying that this Ruddlesden-Popper oxide decorated by Cu nanoparticles is highly active as the catalyst for the steam electrolysis in symmetrical solid oxide cells.
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