Highly dispersed nickel species on iron-based perovskite for CO2 electrolysis in solid oxide electrolysis cell

doi:10.1016/S1872-2067(21)63960-8

Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (7): 1710-1718.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(21)63960-8

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Highly dispersed nickel species on iron-based perovskite for CO₂ electrolysis in solid oxide electrolysis cell

Yingjie Zhou^a^,^b, Tianfu Liu^b, Yuefeng Song^b, Houfu Lv^b, Qingxue Liu^b^,^c, Na Ta^b, Xiaomin Zhang^b^,^#(), Guoxiong Wang^b^,^*()

^aState Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
^bState Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, China
^cUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received:2021-08-31 Accepted:2021-10-09 Online:2022-07-18 Published:2022-05-20
Contact: Xiaomin Zhang, Guoxiong Wang
About author:Guoxiong Wang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science) was invited as a young member of the 5^th and 6^th Editorial Board of Chin. J. Catal. Prof. Guoxiong Wang received his B.A. degree from Wuhan University (China) in 2000, and Ph.D. degree from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. He carried out postdoctoral research Catalysis Research Center in Hokkaido University (Japan) from 2007 to 2010. Since the end of 2010, he has been working in State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Distinguished Young Scholars Recipients of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2021) and outstanding member of youth innovation promotion association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019). His research interests mainly focus on electrocatalysis, especially electrochemical conversion of CO₂, CO and CH₄. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers.
Supported by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China(22072146);National Natural Science Foundation of China(22005045);DNL Cooperation Fund, CAS(DNL201923);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2232020D-07);Initial Research Funds for Young Teachers of Donghua University.

Abstract

Abstract:

Feasible construction of cathode materials with highly dispersed active sites can extend the triple-phase boundaries, and therefore leading to enhanced electrode kinetics for CO₂ electrolysis in solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC). Herein, highly dispersed nickel species with low loading (1.0 wt%) were trapped within the La_0.8Sr_0.2FeO_3-_δ-Ce_0.8Sm_0.2O_2-_δ via a facial mechanical milling approach, which demonstrated excellent CO₂ electrolysis performance. The highly dispersed nickel species can significantly alter the electronic structures of the LSF-SDC without affecting its porous network and facilitate oxygen vacancy formation, thus greatly promote the CO₂ electrolysis performance. The highest current density of 1.53 A·cm^-2 could be achieved when operated under 800 °C at 1.6 V, which is about 91% higher than the LSF-SDC counterpart.

Key words: CO₂ electrolysis, Solid oxide electrolysis cells, Perovskite oxide, Nickel species

Yingjie Zhou, Tianfu Liu, Yuefeng Song, Houfu Lv, Qingxue Liu, Na Ta, Xiaomin Zhang, Guoxiong Wang. Highly dispersed nickel species on iron-based perovskite for CO₂ electrolysis in solid oxide electrolysis cell[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2022, 43(7): 1710-1718.

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Fig. 1. SEM images and particle size distribution of LSF-SDC (a), (c) and Ni-LSF-SDC (b), (d), and XRD patterns of LSF-SDC and Ni-LSF-SDC (e).

Fig. 2. XPS spectra of Fe 2p (a), Auger spectrum of Ni LMM (b), and O 1s (c) in all the cathode materials. (d) TPD profiles of LSF-SDC and Ni-LSF-SDC with MS of O2 (m/z = 32). Perovskite model used for calculations of oxygen vacancy formation energy; LaFeO3 (e) and Ni-LaFeO3 (f) (V1 and V2 represent the oxygen vacancy formed on different positions on surface).

Fig. 3. (a) I-V curves for the SOECs with LSF-SDC and Ni-LSF-SDC as cathodes; the short-term chronoamperometry curves at various applied voltages (b), and the corresponding CO production rate and Faraday efficiencies (c) (error bars represent the standard deviations of the average CO production rate and Faraday efficiencies). (d) Stability test of Ni-LSF-SDC as cathode for CO2 electrolysis at 1.2 V.

Fig. 4. SEM images of SOEC with Ni-LSF-SDC cathode (a) and Ni-LSF-SDC cathode (b) after the stability test. STEM of Ni-LSF-SDC after the stability test (c) and corresponding elemental maps (d).

Fig. 5. (a) Nyquist plots of EIS. (b) DRT plots of the cells with different cathodes at 1.6 V.

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