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SOLID STATE IONICS
Volume 138, Issue 3-4, Pages 183-190Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2738(00)00806-7
Keywords
LSM cathode; oxygen reduction; passivation species; cathodic polarization; dilute acid etching; activation process
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The initial behavior of O-2 reduction reactions was studied on freshly-prepared Sr-doped LaMnO3 (LSM) electrodes with and without dilute acid etching at 900 degreesC in air. LSM electrodes without acid etching showed very high polarization potential for the O-2 reduction and the electrode performance improved significantly with the cathodic current passage. On the other hand, for the reaction on LSM electrode after acid etching, the change in the polarization potential with the current passage time was much smaller and cathodic current passage had little enhancing or activation effect on the electrode performance. The results indicate that the dilute acid etching effectively replaced the activation process of the cathodic polarization on LSM electrodes and the initially very high polarization losses for the reaction on LSM electrodes are most likely originated from the passivation species such as MnOx and in particular SrO species originally enriched on the LSM electrode surface. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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