Abstract
In this paper, Ce 0.8Sm 0.2O 1.9 (SDC) nanoparticles modified GdBaCo 2O 5+δ (GBCO) cathodes were fabricated by an infiltration technique and evaluated for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFCs). Good chemical compatibility between GBCO and infiltrated SDC was confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) characterization. SDC nanoparticles (∼40 nm) formed continuous ionic-conducting phase on porous GBCO backbone, which contributed to significantly improved electro-catalytic property. At 600 °C, the composite cathode with 3.3 mg cm −2 SDC loading exhibited encouragingly low R p value of 0.1 Ω cm 2, which was much lower than 0.43 Ω cm 2 of pure-GBCO cathode. As revealed by PO 2 dependence of impedance spectra, the oxygen reduction reaction was mainly limited by charge-transfer processes. Furthermore, a stable operation of 80 h was obtained at 600 °C. Our study implies that infiltrated GBCO cathode is very attractive for application in IT-SOFC cathode.
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