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- Title
Developing CeO 2 -CoAl 2 O 4 Semiconductor Ionic Based Heterostructure Composite Electrolyte for Low-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs).
- Authors
Dong, Yiwang; Yousaf, Muhammad; Shah, Muhammad Ali Kamran Yousaf; Akbar, Muhammad; Lu, Yuzheng; Zhang, Lei; Sial, Qadeer Akbar; Cao, Peng; Deng, Changhong
- Abstract
Semiconductor ionic electrolytes, especially heterostructure composites, have a significant role in enhancing oxide ion conductivity and peak power density (PPD) because of their interfacial contact. In this work, the fluorite structure CeO2 and spinel-based CoAl2O4 samples, as a heterostructure composite electrolyte, are successfully fabricated. The p-type CoAl2O4 and n-type CeO2 heterostructure (CeO2-CoAl2O4) used as an electrolyte exhibits a cell performance of 758 mW/cm2 under fuel cell H2/air conditions at 550 °C, which is quite higher than the pure CoAl2O4 and CeO2 fuel cell devices. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) verified the heterostructure formation including the morphological analysis of the prepared heterostructure composite. The heterostructure-based CeO2-CoAl2O4 composite achieved a higher ionic conductivity of 0.13 S/cm at 550 °C temperature, which means that the constructed device successfully works as an electrolyte by suppressing electronic conductivity. Meanwhile, the obtained results demonstrate the semiconductor ionic heterostructure effect by adjusting the appropriate composition to build heterostructure of the n-type (CeO2) and p-type (CoAl2O4) components and built-in electric field. So, this work exhibits that the constructed device can be effective for energy conversion and storage devices.
- Subjects
SOLID oxide fuel cells; POLYELECTROLYTES; CERIUM oxides; SOLID electrolytes; SEMICONDUCTORS; ENERGY conversion
- Publication
Crystals (2073-4352), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 6, p975
- ISSN
2073-4352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cryst13060975