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NANO LETTERS
Volume 16, Issue 8, Pages 5303-5309Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02757
Keywords
Crystal reconstruction; oxygen deficiency; double perovskite; in situ exsolution; in situ characterizations
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of the Canada
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21303141]
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One of the main challenges for advanced metallic nanoparticles (NPs) supported functional perovskite catalysts is the simultaneous achievement of a high population of NPs with uniform distribution as well as long-lasting high performance. These are also the essential requirements for optimal electrode catalysts used in solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysis cells (SOFCs and SOECs). Herein, we report a facile operando manufacture way that the crystal reconstruction of double perovskite under reducing atmosphere can spontaneously lead to the formation of ordered layered oxygen deficiency and yield segregation of massively and finely dispersed NPs. The real-time observation of this emergent process was performed via an environmental transmission electron microscope. Density functional theory calculations prove that the crystal reconstruction induces the loss of coordinated oxygen surrounding B-site cations, serving as the driving force for steering fast NP growth. The prepared material shows promising capability as an active and stable electrode for SOFCs in various fuels and SOECs for CO2 reduction. The conception exemplified here could conceivably be extended to fabricate a series of supported NPs perovskite catalysts with diverse functionalities.
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