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Multiscale Sampling of a Heterogeneous Water/Metal Catalyst Interface using Density Functional Theory and Force-Field Molecular Dynamics
Published on: April 12, 2019
Kinetics of competing exchange of oxygen and water at the surface of functional oxides
Vincent Thoréton1, Mathew Niania2, John Kilner2
1WPI-International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Fukuoka, Japan. vincent.thoreton@smn.uio.no.
Abstract:
The presence of water vapour in the input gas stream influences the performance of air electrodes of solid oxide cells. In this work, the oxygen transport kinetics were determined by isotopic exchange depth profiling at 350 °C on polycrystalline La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3-δ samples in humidified oxygen, comparing the differences in tracer diffusion profile using either 18O2 or H218O as the labelling medium. The apparent surface exchange coefficients of oxygen were determined in each case and used together to estimate the oxygen surface exchange coefficients of molecular oxygen and water. It was found that, in humid conditions, the surface exchange coefficient of molecular oxygen is significantly decreased in comparison to a reference in dry conditions. In addition, the surface exchange coefficient of water is higher than that for molecular oxygen. This is in good agreement with the hypothesis that, water monopolises the active exchange sites at the material surface and thus oxygen from water exchanges faster than the one of molecular oxygen.
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