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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 56, Issue 27, Pages 9727-9740Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2011.07.112
Keywords
Platinum electrodes; Triple phase boundary; Oxygen reduction; Microelectrodes; Impedance spectroscopy
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [F4509-N16]
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The oxygen exchange kinetics of platinum on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) was investigated by means of geometrically well-defined Pt microelectrodes. By variation of electrode size and temperature it was possible to separate two temperature regimes with different geometry dependencies of the polarization resistance. At higher temperatures (550-700 degrees C) an elementary step located close to the three phase boundary (TPB) with an activation energy of similar to 1.6 eV was identified as rate limiting. At lower temperatures (300-400 degrees C) the rate limiting elementary step is related to the electrode area and exhibited a very low activation energy in the order of 0.2 eV. From these observations two parallel pathways for electrochemical oxygen exchange are concluded. The nature of these two elementary steps is discussed in terms of equivalent circuits. Two combinations of parallel rate limiting reaction steps are found to explain the observed geometry dependencies: (i) Diffusion through an impurity phase at the TPB in parallel to diffusion of oxygen through platinum - most likely along Pt grain boundaries - as area-related process. (ii) Co-limitation of oxygen diffusion along the Pt vertical bar YSZ interface and charge transfer at the interface with a short decay length of the corresponding transmission line (as TPB-related process) in parallel to oxygen diffusion through platinum. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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