Electrochemical property of proton-conductive manganese dioxide for sensoring hydrogen gas concentration

Yoshikatsu Ueda, Yomei Tokuda, Toshinobu Yoko, Ken Takeuchi, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Hideki Koyanaka

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Abstract

A high-purity, ramsdellite-crystal type manganese dioxide (Koyanaka et al., 2005 [1]; Iikubo et al., 2010 [2]) was used for an electrolyte in a hydrogen gas sensor (Ueda et al., 2011 [3]). In this report, the electrochemical properties of the hydrogen gas sensor using electrolytes made of different crystal types of manganese dioxides, such as the ramsdellite-crystal type, a β-crystal type, and a λ-crystal type were examined. The high-purity, ramsdellite-crystal type manganese dioxide showed the conductivity from 7.1 × 10 - 5 S/cm (80 °C) to 1.7 × 10 - 4 S/cm (25 °C) under 85% relative humidity condition. This conductivity was probably based on the proton conduction on the MnO 2 particles.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)282-285
Number of pages4
JournalSolid State Ionics
Volume225
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 4 2012

Funding

This work was partly supported by the WPI program from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology of Japan , by the Kurita Water and Environment Foundation , by the Inamori Foundation , by the Exploratory Research Project on Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere and by the Institute of Sustainability Science (ISS) in Kyoto University . Work at ORNL was supported by the DOE-BES and was managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for DOE under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.

Keywords

  • Hydrogen fuel meter
  • Hydrogen gas sensor
  • Manganese dioxide
  • Proton conduction

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