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Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Oxygen Reduction at Porous Composite Electrodes for Fuel Cells by Analyses of ac‐Impedance Spectra and Potentiostatic Current Transients
Author(s) -
Kim JuSik,
Pyun SuIl
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
israel journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.908
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1869-5868
pISSN - 0021-2148
DOI - 10.1560/ijc.48.3-4.277
Subject(s) - chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , dielectric spectroscopy , electrical impedance , electrode , capacitance , electrochemistry , electrical engineering , engineering , chromatography
This article covers the theoretical and experimental approaches to oxygen reduction at the porous composite electrodes for fuel cells by analyses of ac‐impedance spectra and potentiostatic current transient (PCT). First, the analysis methods based upon the thin‐film agglomerate model and the random packing model were introduced to theoretically calculate the ac‐impedance spectra. From the results, it is suggested that the capacitance dispersion in the high frequency range is closely associated with oxygen ion migration through the electrode. The deconvolution method by discrete Fourier transform and the PCT analysis method by inverse Laplace transform were also employed to simulate the distribution function of relaxation time and the PCTs, respectively. Finally, as an example of application, in the present work, we investigated the oxygen reduction mechanism at the porous (La 0.85 Sr 0.15 ) 0.9 MnO 3 (LSM)‐yittria‐stabilized zirconia (YSZ) composite electrodes as a function of sintering temperature by means of the analysis methods proposed above. From the dependences of the constant phase element exponent β for ion migration and the time to reach the steady‐state current t st on the sintering temperature, the capacitance dispersion in the high frequency range was discussed in terms of the distribution of the relaxation times for ion migration, which was greatly affected by the YSZ grain size.