Ambient pressure XPS study of mixed conducting perovskite-type SOFC cathode and anode materials under well-defined electrochemical polarization

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1461-1471

  Nenning, Andreas ^a   Opitz, Alexander K ^a   Rameshan, Christoph ^a   Rameshan, Raffael ^b,c   Blume, Raoul ^b   Hävecker, Michael ^b   Knop Gericke, Axel ^b   Rupprechter, Günther ^a   Klötzer, Bernhard ^c   Fleig, Jürgen ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; BINDING ENERGY; CATHODES; CATHODIC POLARIZATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; POLARIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AMBIENT PRESSURE XPS; ELECTROCHEMICAL POLARIZATION; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTION MECHANISM; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IN-SITU INVESTIGATIONS; MIXED CONDUCTING OXIDES; REVERSIBLE FORMATION; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC);

EID: 84956687812     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b08596     Document Type: Article

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