Spatially resolved mapping of oxygen reduction/evolution reaction on solid-oxide fuel cell cathodes with sub-10 nm resolution

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3808-3814

  Kumar, Amit ^a   Leonard, Donovan ^a   Jesse, Stephen ^a   Ciucci, Francesco ^b   Eliseev, Eugene A ^c   Morozovska, Anna N ^d   Biegalski, Michael D ^a   Christen, Hans M ^a   Tselev, Alexander ^a   Mutoro, Eva ^e   Crumlin, Ethan J ^e   Morgan, Dane ^f   Yang, Shao Horn ^e   Borisevich, Albina ^a   Kalinin, Sergei V ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c FRANTSEVICH INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Ukraine)

^d INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

cobaltites; electrochemical activity; electrochemical strain microscopy; fuel cells; structural defects

Indexed keywords

COBALTITES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL STRAIN MICROSCOPIES; LANTHANUM STRONTIUM COBALTITES; LAYERED PEROVSKITE STRUCTURE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMALL-ANGLE GRAIN BOUNDARIES; STRUCTURAL DEFECT;

FUEL CELLS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PEROVSKITE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

OXYGEN;

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; LANTHANUM; OXIDE; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POWER SUPPLY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; LANTHANUM; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDES; OXYGEN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84878325767     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303239e     Document Type: Article

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