Mixed Ionic/electron

The anode material in SOF(7s is a cermet (rnetal/cerarnic composite material) of 30 to 40 percent nickel in zirconia, and the cathode is lanthanum rnanganite doped with calcium oxide or strontium oxide. Both of these materials are porous and mixed ionic/electronic conductors. The bipolar separator typically is doped lanthanum chromite, but a metal can be used in cells operating below 1073 K (1472°F). The bipolar plate materials are dense and electronically conductive. 

Table 11.2 and assume A=100, which is rather conservative value, to compute J via Eq. (11.32) and O via Eq. (11.22). The results show t p 0.91 which implies that the O2 backspillover mechanism is fully operative under oxidation reaction conditions on nanoparticle metal crystallites supported on ionic or mixed ionic-electronic supports, such as YSZ, Ti02 and Ce02. This is quite reasonable in view of the fact that, as already mentioned an adsorbed O atom can migrate 1 pm per s on Pt at 400°C. So unless the oxidation reaction turnover frequency is higher than 103 s 1, which is practically never the case, the O8 backspillover double layer is present on the supported nanocrystalline catalyst particles. 

There are no specific requirements for the solid electrolytes (pellets or tubes) used in electrochemical promotion experiments. However they should be stable under the conditions of the experimental study. Also one should know the type of ionic conductivity and the possibility of appearance of mixed ionic-electronic conductivity under the conditions of electrochemical promotion. This is quite essential for the correct interpretation of results. Addresses of suppliers of solid electrolytes included in Table B.l are presented below ... 

Solid mixed ionic-electronic conductors (MIECs) exhibit both ionic and electronic (electron-hole) conductivity. Naturally, in any material there are in principle nonzero electronic and ionic conductivities (a i, a,). It is customary to limit the use of the term MIEC to those materials in which a, and 0, 1 do not differ by more than two orders of magnitude. It is also customary to use the term MIEC if a, and Ogi are not too low (o, a i 10 S/cm). Obviously, there are no strict rules. There are processes where the minority carriers play an important role despite the fact that 0,70 1 exceeds those limits and a, aj,i< 10 S/cm. In MIECs, ion transport normally occurs via interstitial sites or by hopping into a vacant site or a more complex combination based on interstitial and vacant sites, and electronic (electron/hole) conductivity occurs via delocalized states in the conduction/valence band or via localized states by a thermally assisted hopping mechanism. With respect to their properties, MIECs have found wide applications in solid oxide fuel cells, batteries, smart windows, selective membranes, sensors, catalysis, and so on. 

D Mixed ionic electronic conductor (MIEC) o Triple-phase boundaries (TPB s)... 

Wan J, Goodenough JB, and Zhu JH. Nd2 xLaxNi04+5, a mixed ionic/electronic conductor with interstitial oxygen, as a cathode material. Solid State Ionics 2007 178 281-286. 

Heterophase assemblages of mixed ionic/electronic conductors of the type A/AX/AY/A under an electric load are the simplest inhomogeneous electrochemical systems that can serve to exemplify our problem. Let us assume that the transport of cations and electrons across the various boundaries occurs without interface polarization and that the transference of anions is negligible. For the other transference numbers we then have... 

J.B. Goodenough, in Mixed Ionic Electronic Conducting Perovskites for Advanced Energy Systems, N. Orlovskaya and N. Browning, (editors), NATO Science Series, Vol. 173, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2004, p. 1. 

Conductor — is a qualitative term reflecting the capability of a substance to conduct an electrical -> current. Depending on the type of sole or prevailing - charge carriers, - solid materials can be classified into ionic, electronic, and mixed ionic-electronic conductors. 

The class of ionic conductors is not unambiguously defined in literature. Depending on context, this term maybe used either for solid electrolytes where the ion transference number is higher than 0.99, or for any solid material where ions are mobile, including mixed ionic-electronic conductors where the partial ionic and electronic diffusivities are comparable. The latter term is used for materials where the ion transference numbers are lower than 0.95-0.99, and also in conditions when a minor contribution to the total conductivity (ionic or... 

Similar approaches are used for most steady-state measurement techniques developed for mixed ionic-electronic conductors (see -> conductors and -> conducting solids). These include the measurements of concentration-cell - electromotive force, experiments with ion- or electron-blocking electrodes, determination of - electrolytic permeability, and various combined techniques [ii-vii]. In all cases, the results may be affected by electrode polarization this influence should be avoided optimizing experimental procedures and/or taken into account via appropriate modeling. See also -> Wagner equation, -> Hebb-Wagner method, and -> ambipolar conductivity. 

Ionic and mixed ionic-electronic conductors — Ionic conductors are solid systems that conduct electric current by movement of the ions. Mixed ionic-electronic conductors are those also conducting by the passage of electrons or holes (like metals or semiconductors). Usually only one type of ion (cation or anion) is predominantly mobile and determines conductivity. 

NEMCA effect — The term NEMCA is the acronym of Non-faradaic Electrochemical Modification of Catalytic Activity. The NEMCA effect is also known as electrochemical promotion (EP) or electropromotion. It is the effect observed on the rates and selectivities of catalytic reactions taking place on electronically conductive catalysts deposited on ionic (or mixed ionic-electronic) supports upon application of electric current or potential (typically 2 V) between the catalyst and a second (counter or auxiliary) electrode also deposited on the same support. The catalytic reactants are usually in the gas phase. 

Refs. [i] Tubandt C (1932) Leitfdhigkeit und Uberfuhrungszahlen infes-ten Elektrolyten. In Wien W, Harms F, Fajans K (eds) Elektrochemie. Handbuch der Experimentalphysik, vol. 12, part 1. Akadem Verlags-ges, Leipzig, pp 381 [ii] Riess I (1997) Electrochemistry of mixed ionic-electronic conductors. In Gellings PJ, Bouwmeester HJM (eds) Solid state electrochemistry. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 223... 

Wagner equation — denotes usually one of two equations derived by -> Wagner for the flux of charged species Bz under an -> electrochemical potential gradient, and for the - electromotive force of a -> galvanic cell with a mixed ionic-electronic -> conductor [i-v] ... 

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