Orienting oxygen vacancies for fast catalytic reaction

Hyoungjeen Jeen, Zhonghe Bi, Woo Seok Choi, Matthew F. Chisholm, Craig A. Bridges, M. Parans Paranthaman, Ho Nyung Lee

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Abstract

A strategy to enhance the catalytic activity at the surface of an oxide thin film is unveiled through epitaxial orientation control of the surface oxygen vacancy concentration. By tuning the direction of the oxygen vacancy channels (OVCs) in the brownmillerite SrCoO2.5, a 100-fold improvement in the oxygen reduction kinetics is realized in an epitaxial thin film that has the OVCs open to the surface.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6459-6463
Number of pages5
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume25
Issue number44
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 26 2013

Keywords

  • brownmillerite
  • oxygen reduction reaction
  • pulsed laser epitaxy
  • solid oxide fuel cells
  • strontium cobaltite

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