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New Strategy for Boosting Cathodic Performance of Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells Through Incorporating a Superior Hydronation Second Phase

Chuan Zhou^¹, Xixi Wang^¹, Dongliang Liu^¹, Meijuan Fei^¹, Jie Dai^¹, Daqin Guan^¹, Zhiwei Hu^², Linjuan Zhang^³, Yu Wang^³, Wei Wang^¹, Ryan O’Hayre^⁴, San Ping Jiang^⁵, Wei Zhou^{¹^,⁶}(), Meilin Liu^⁷, Zongping Shao^⁵

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State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China

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Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Nöthnitzer Strasse 40, Dresden 01187, Germany

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Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, USA

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WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering (WASM-MECE), Curtin University, Perth WA 6102, Australia

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Suzhou Laboratory, Suzhou 215000, China

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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, USA

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For protonic ceramic fuel cells, it is key to develop material with high intrinsic activity for oxygen activation and bulk proton conductivity enabling water formation at entire electrode surface. However, a higher water content which benefitting for the increasing proton conductivity will not only dilute the oxygen in the gas, but also suppress the O₂ adsorption on the electrode surface. Herein, a new electrode design concept is proposed, that may overcome this dilemma. By introducing a second phase with high-hydrating capability into a conventional cobalt-free perovskite to form a unique nanocomposite electrode, high proton conductivity/concentration can be reached at low water content in atmosphere. In addition, the hydronation creates additional fast proton transport channel along the two-phase interface. As a result, high protonic conductivity is reached, leading to a new breakthrough in performance for proton ceramic fuel cells and electrolysis cells devices among available air electrodes.

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cathode high-hydrating capability proton conductivity protonic ceramic fuel cells

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Energy & Environmental Materials

Volume 7 Issue 4,
July 2024

Article number: e12660

DOI: 10.1002/eem2.12660

Cite this article:

Zhou C, Wang X, Liu D, et al. New Strategy for Boosting Cathodic Performance of Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells Through Incorporating a Superior Hydronation Second Phase. Energy & Environmental Materials, 2024, 7(4): e12660. https://doi.org/10.1002/eem2.12660

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