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Tianrang Yang1, Allison H Matthews1, Nansheng Xu1
1Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of South Carolina , Columbia , South Carolina 29208 , United States.
Abstract:
In this work, we report a systematic study on temperature-dependent local structural evolution, oxygen stoichiometry, and electrochemical properties of an oxygen-deficient perovskite Sr0.7Y0.3CoO3-δ (SYC30) for oxygen electrocatalysis. The obtained results are then closely compared with its analogue Sr0.9Y0.1CoO3-δ (SYC10) of different crystal structures to establish structure-activity relationships. The comparison shows that both SYC30 and SYC10 consist of alternate layers of oxygen-deficient Co1-polyhedra and oxygen-saturated Co2-octahedra with Co1-polyhedra being responsible for Vo•• migration. It is also found that the distribution and concentration of oxygen vacancies within the Co1-layer are, respectively, less symmetrical and lower in SYC30 than those in SYC10, making the former unfavorable for oxygen transport. A molecular orbital energy analysis reveals that the energy gap between Fermi level and O 2p level in the active Co1-polyhedra is larger in SYC30 than that in SYC10, further suggesting that SYC10 is a better oxide-ion conductor and thus a better electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction, which is unambiguously confirmed by the subsequent electrochemical measurements.
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