Study on charge transportation in the layer-structured oxide composite of SOFCs
By Liu, Xueqi; Dong, Wenjing; Xia, Chen; Huang, Qiuan; Cai, Yixiao; Wei, Lili; Wu, Guitai; Wang, Xunying; Tong, Yuzhu; Qiao, Zheng; Meng, Yuanjing; Mushtaq, Naveed; Wang, Baoyuan; Wang, Hao
Published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
2018
Abstract
In the past few years, triple (H+/O2?/e?) conducting materials have been regarded as one of the most promising electrode categories for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). In this work, a layer-structured LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2-? (LNCA) with triple conduction has been studied. The semiconductor-ionic conductor (SIC) LNCA-SDC composite has been fabricated by compositing the LNCA material with ionic conductor, i.e., samarium doped ceria (SDC). The electrochemical performance of the LNCA-SDC composite was studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, while its electronic conductivity was confirmed by d.c. polarization method. It is found that the ionic conductivity of the composite is higher than the electronic conductivity by several orders of magnitude. The charge carriers and transportation properties of LNCA-SDC were studied using H+ and O2? blocking layer cells respectively. Results prove that the LNCA-SDC composite is a hybrid oxygen ion-proton conducting material. The oxygen ion conduction is dominated at low temperature (425