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Performance variability of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ cathode on proton-conducting electrolyte SOFCs with Ag and Au current collectors

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Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ (BSCF) is one of the most active cathode materials and shows significant hydration effect suggesting possible proton conductivity. In this study, the performance of BSCF cathode on a proton-conducting BaZr0.1Ce0.7Y0.2O3−δ (BZCY) electrolyte with silver and gold current collectors was determined. The electrochemical characteristics of the symmetrical and anode-supported cell with diluted silver electrode, silver current collector or gold current collector on BSCF electrode were compared. The significant result is that, although the diluted silver electrode itself shows poor operation stability, the silver current collector has strong electrocatalytic contribution to the BSCF cathode performance on the proton-conducting electrolyte, leading to higher cell performance than that with the gold current collector.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51502001), the Natural Science Fund of Anhui Province (No. 1608085MB31), the Provincial Natural Science Research Program of Higher Education Institutions of Anhui Province (No. KJ2015A0501), Anhui University Personnel Recruiting Project of Academic and Technical Leaders (No. J10117700069) and the State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering (No. KL15-01).

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    Ting-Ting Wan, An-Kang Zhu, Hai-Bo Li, Chun-Chang Wang & You-Min Guo

  2. State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing, 210009, China

    Zong-Ping Shao

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia

    Zong-Ping Shao

  4. Laboratory of New Materials for Electrochemistry and Energy, Polytechnique Montréal, C.P.6079, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3A7, Canada

    Oumarou Savadogo

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Wan, TT., Zhu, AK., Li, HB. et al. Performance variability of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δ cathode on proton-conducting electrolyte SOFCs with Ag and Au current collectors. Rare Met. 37, 633–641 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-017-0942-5

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