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Although the conventional commercial solid oxide fuel cells cathode LaSrCoFeO (LSCF) exhibits excellent electrochemical performance, its oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics are still sluggish, and Strontium (Sr) segregation is also an issue for long-term stability. Herein, a Sr-free electro-catalyst PrBaCsCoO (PBCsC) is infiltrated on the surface of LSCF to form a PBCsC-LSCF electrode, accelerating the surface oxygen exchange and thus improving the ORR activity and stability. PBCsC-LSCF shows a higher concentration of oxygen vacancies and less Sr segregation, as confirmed by the analyses of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). As a result, PBCsC-LSCF demonstrates an area-specific resistance of 0.010 Ω cm at 750 °C, much lower than 0.067 Ω cm of a bare LSCF. An improved peak power density of 1.70 W cm is reached from the single cell with PBCsC-LSCF at 750 °C, likely due to the higher oxygen surface exchange, as indicated by the distribution of relaxation time analyses. In addition, the cells' operational stability is greatly improved at a current density of 0.5 A cm with a degradation rate of 0.055% h, probably attributable to the suppression of Sr segregation by infiltration, as suggested by the XPS results.
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Langmuir
September 2025
Product & Process Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.
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State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Institute of Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
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Federal University of São Paulo, Laboratory of Hybrid Materials, Diadema, São Paulo 09913-030, Brazil.
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