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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 282-285 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Solid State Ionics |
Volume | 225 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 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