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Synthesis and characterization of MnO-doped titanium pyrophosphates (Ti1-x Mn x P2O7; x = 0–0.2) for intermediate-temperature proton-conducting ceramic-electrolyte fuel cells

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MnO-doped TiP2O7 (Ti1-x Mn x P2O7; x = 0–0.2) were synthesized by digesting oxide precursors with H3PO4 in a two-step synthesis method. Various compositions of Ti1-x Mn x P2O7 were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis/differential scanning calorimetry (TGA/DSC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). XRD of 1050 °C sintered samples showed the formation of (TiO)P2O7 in ≥15 mol% MnO-doped samples. SEM images of 1050 °C sintered Ti1-x Mn x P2O7 samples showed that MnO acts as a sintering aid, with the higher amount of MnO leading to a better densification. It was observed that the ionic conductivities of MnO-doped sintered samples were higher than that of undoped TiP2O7 (TiP) sample. The increase in ionic conductivity of MnO-doped TiP2O7 can be attributed to MnO acting as an acceptor dopant, and increased densification of the MnO-doped samples. In unhumidified air, among various MnO-doped samples, Ti0.9Mn0.1P2O7 (TMP10) showed the highest ionic conductivity with a magnitude of 6.29 × 10−8 S cm−1 at 250 °C and 1.33 × 10−5 S cm−1 at 500 °C. Furthermore, the ionic conductivity of TMP10 was higher than that of Ti0.88Mn0.12P2O7 (TMP12), which could be attributed to the formation of defect pairs in TMP12. The ionic conductivity of TMP10 showed >4 orders of magnitude increase in humidified air (pH2O = 0.12 atm) in 100–270 °C range with a maximum of 6.55 × 10−4 S cm−1 at 180 °C. In addition, comparison with the literature data showed that the ionic conductivity of TMP10 was higher than those observed for the high-temperature sintered TiP2O7 samples.

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This work was supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India (R&D/SERB/RNJ/Ceramic/15-16/04), and Korea CCS R&D Center (KCRC) grant (No. 2014M1A8A1049351) funded by the Korea government (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning).

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    Bhupendra Singh, Aman Bhardwaj, Sandeep K. Gautam, Om Parkash & Devendra Kumar

  2. Advanced Materials and Catalysis Laboratory, Department of Energy and Technology, Myongji University, Gyeonggi-Do, Seoul, 449-728, Republic of Korea

    Harsharaj S. Jadhav

  3. Ionics Lab, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, 300 Yongbong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwang-Ju, 500-757, Republic of Korea

    Sun-Ju Song

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Singh, B., Bhardwaj, A., Gautam, S.K. et al. Synthesis and characterization of MnO-doped titanium pyrophosphates (Ti1-x Mn x P2O7; x = 0–0.2) for intermediate-temperature proton-conducting ceramic-electrolyte fuel cells. Ionics 23, 1675–1684 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-017-2024-y

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