Lidong Wang, Xueting Fu, Peng Du, Hai Jiang and Laihui Luo
{"title":"Multimode stimulated luminescence of LiNbO3:Pr3+/ZnS:Cu/PDMS flexible films†","authors":"Lidong Wang, Xueting Fu, Peng Du, Hai Jiang and Laihui Luo","doi":"10.1039/D4TC03945A","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC03945A","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The versatility of emission modes and colors in flexible films is essential for broadening their potential applications. This study presents the development of a multi-mode luminescent flexible film by integrating ZnS:Cu and LiNbO<small><sub>3</sub></small>:Pr<small><sup>3+</sup></small> powders into a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) matrix. The ZnS:Cu and LiNbO<small><sub>3</sub></small>:Pr<small><sup>3+</sup></small> powders are uniformly distributed in the PDMS matrix. The effect of the LiNbO<small><sub>3</sub></small>:Pr<small><sup>3+</sup></small> content on the photoluminescence (PL), electroluminescence (EL), mechanoluminescence (ML), thermoluminescence (TL), and photostimulated luminescence (PSL) properties of the films has been investigated. The PL colors of the LiNbO<small><sub>3</sub></small>:Pr<small><sup>3+</sup></small>/ZnS:Cu/PDMS flexible films due to the distinct intrinsic emissions of ZnS:Cu and LiNbO<small><sub>3</sub></small>:Pr<small><sup>3+</sup></small> can be changed by altering the excitation wavelength. An appropriate content of the LiNbO<small><sub>3</sub></small>:Pr<small><sup>3+</sup></small> powder introduces PSL into the flexible films, while the films demonstrate excellent EL and ML performance, along with multicolored TL emissions, including red and green. This research offers a novel approach to enhancing flexible electronic displays, EL devices, and optical anti-counterfeiting technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 1","pages":" 242-249"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142859417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A pyrimidine end-capped electron transport material interacted with silver for improving electron-injection and long-term stability in OLEDs†","authors":"Yuhui Chen, Takeshi Sano, Hisahiro Sasabe, Ryo Sugiyama, Amane Matsunaga, Hiroki Sato, Hiroshi Katagiri and Junji Kido","doi":"10.1039/D4TC03534H","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC03534H","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Although organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have been commercialized for display applications, electron-injection layers (EILs) still rely on alkali metals or their compounds to lower driving voltages, and hence reactivity with atmospheric moisture is a primary concern, especially in flexible devices. As an alternative strategy, combining electron transport materials (ETMs) based on 1,10-phenanthroline (Phen) derivatives with silver (Phen/Ag) has attracted much attention for developing air-stable EILs. However, most studies have focused on Phen derivatives. Herein, we developed a non-Phen ETM named <strong>DPmPy-BP</strong> based on a 2,6-di(pyrimidin-2-yl)pyridine skeleton. Combined with Ag (<strong>DPmPy-BP</strong>/Ag) as a potentially air-stable EIL, this ETM exhibited superior electron-injection properties and remarkable stability in preliminary green phosphorescent OLEDs achieving a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 20% and an operational lifetime (LT<small><sub>50</sub></small>) of approximately 17 000 hours at 1000 cd m<small><sup>−2</sup></small>, which surpass those of <strong>Phen</strong>/Ag devices and are comparable to devices using a conventional alkali metal compound 8-hydroxyquinolinolato-lithium (<strong>Liq</strong>) as the EIL (<strong>DPmPy-BP</strong>/<strong>Liq</strong>).</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 47","pages":" 19274-19280"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142778049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaowei Zhu, Wei Liu, Guobin Zhu, Siyu Xiong, Deqin Chen, Xiuyun Lei, Laijun Liu and Chunchun Li
{"title":"Entropy-engineered BaTiO3-based perovskite ceramics via A/B site synergetic design to enhance energy storage properties","authors":"Xiaowei Zhu, Wei Liu, Guobin Zhu, Siyu Xiong, Deqin Chen, Xiuyun Lei, Laijun Liu and Chunchun Li","doi":"10.1039/D4TC03942D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC03942D","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The present study reports on entropy-engineered perovskite ceramics (Ca<small><sub>1/3</sub></small>Sr<small><sub>1/3</sub></small>Ba<small><sub>1/3</sub></small>)(Sn<small><sub><em>x</em></sub></small>Ti<small><sub>1−<em>x</em></sub></small>)O<small><sub>3</sub></small> (CSBTO-<em>x</em>Sn) with varying Sn-doping levels (<em>x</em> = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3), achieved through synergistic compositional design in both the A-sites and B-sites of the perovskite. Increasing the Sn-doping content induces a transition in configuration entropy from medium to high values. Notably, at an optimal composition of <em>x</em> = 0.1, the ceramic exhibits exceptional energy storage characteristics including an ultrahigh recoverable energy density (<em>W</em><small><sub>rec</sub></small>) of 5.05 J cm<small><sup>−3</sup></small> and a high efficiency (<em>η</em>) of 82.56% at an electric field strength (<em>E</em><small><sub>b</sub></small>) of 540 kV cm<small><sup>−1</sup></small> over a wide temperature range spanning from 30 to 100 °C and frequencies ranging from 1 Hz to 200 Hz. Furthermore, this ceramic demonstrates remarkable charge–discharge properties with a discharge energy density (<em>W</em><small><sub>dis</sub></small>) of 2.94 J cm<small><sup>−3</sup></small> and a rapid discharge rate of <em>t</em><small><sub>0.9</sub></small> ∼ 67 ns. This study underscores the effectiveness of entropy engineering as a viable approach for developing advanced energy storage capacitors.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 47","pages":" 19086-19093"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142778020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kieran Griffiths, Harry Brough, Ryan J. Bragg, Nathan R. Halcovitch and John M. Griffin
{"title":"Molecular insights into solid-state photochromism in bulk and confined N-salicylidenes†","authors":"Kieran Griffiths, Harry Brough, Ryan J. Bragg, Nathan R. Halcovitch and John M. Griffin","doi":"10.1039/D4TC02862G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC02862G","url":null,"abstract":"<p > <em>N</em>-Salicylidenes are well known to exhibit solid-state photochromism, but the precise structure–property relationships are not fully understood and it is difficult to control or impart specific photochromic properties through molecular design alone. In this study, we use solid-state NMR and DFT calculations to investigate the link between the solid-state structure and the photochromic properties. We show that the photochromic properties are highly dependent on the molecular geometry within the crystal structure, which itself is an indicator of the amount of free space available for light-induced tautomerisation. Specifically, <small><sup>13</sup></small>C solid-state NMR experiments and DFT calculations reveal that the imine chemical shift of the ground-state enol isomer is highly dependent on the molecular geometry, and this helps to rationalise the known empirical torsion angle dependence of the photochromic properties. Upon inclusion within a metal–organic framework, the <em>N</em>-salicylidene molecules are found to adopt geometries close to their ground-state energy minima and this is coupled with the emergence of photochromism for molecules that are not photochromic in the bulk crystalline state. This work highlights that controlling the amount of available steric freedom is key to unlocking the photoactive conformation in the solid state.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 48","pages":" 19453-19462"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/tc/d4tc02862g?page=search","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142810799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical study on the optoelectronic properties of fluorinated phenylpyrrole-based hole transport materials for perovskite solar cells†","authors":"Wenhui You, Jie Yang and Quansong Li","doi":"10.1039/D4TC03432E","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC03432E","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Hole transport materials (HTMs) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are crucial for hole transport and exciton dissociation; therefore, developing efficient HTMs is key to improving the stability and photoelectric conversion efficiency of PSCs. In this study, a series of high twist phenylpyrrole (PP)-based HTMs with D–A–D structures were developed by adjusting fluorine substitution. The optoelectronic and interfacial properties of the synthesized single fluorine-substituted parent molecule (T3-pF) (Yi C, <em>et al.</em> Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2023, 62: e202300314) and ten newly designed molecules were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) methods. Results indicated that the position of fluorine substitution had a more significant impact on hole mobility than the number of substitutions. The newly designed molecules T3-mF, T3-2F-C, and T3-3F-B exhibited the highest hole mobility in mono-, di-, and tri-fluorine-substituted molecules, all of which showed approximately twice the hole mobility of the parent HTM T3-pF. Additionally, <em>ortho</em>-fluorine substituted molecules demonstrated greater advantages in intramolecular charge transfer. The calculations of interfacial performance revealed that anchoring more fluorine sites on Pb can enhance interface interactions (an increase in adsorption energy by up to 0.5 eV) and promote hole transfer between the HTM and perovskite substrates (a doubling of the Bader charge). Among all the HTMs studied, the trifluorinated molecule T3-3F-B exhibited a good balance between bulk phase charge transfer and interfacial properties, with hole mobility and Bader charge being about twice that of the parent molecule. Therefore, this molecule can be used as an excellent HTM candidate. This work elucidates the microscopic mechanism of fluorine substitution on novel HTM molecules and provides theoretical guidance for designing efficient HTMs.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 1","pages":" 285-294"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142859422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenjing Liu, Yu Mi, Shuaishuai Shen and Jinsheng Song
{"title":"Spectra tunable non-fused ring electron acceptors via incorporation of an electron-deficient unit and side-chain engineering†","authors":"Wenjing Liu, Yu Mi, Shuaishuai Shen and Jinsheng Song","doi":"10.1039/D4TC03545C","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC03545C","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Non-fused-ring acceptors are currently gaining significant attention in research due to their remarkable potential for practical application. In this study, we employed a combination of an electron-deficient unit (EDU) and side-chain engineering to synthesize a series of A–D–A′–D–A acceptors (<strong>BT-4T-1</strong>, <strong>BT-4T-2</strong>, and <strong>BT-4T-3</strong>) for high-performance organic solar cells. By utilizing the EDU, benzothiadiazole (BT), we constructed a central three-membered planar moiety <em>via</em> S⋯O non-covalent locking. Through systematic side-chain engineering, we could effectively regulate the absorption spectra ranging from 400 to ∼1000 nm, which is largely ascribed to the molecular configuration changes. The photovoltaic study suggested that JD-40:<strong>BT-4T-3</strong> exhibited a well-mixed morphology conducive to efficient exciton diffusion and charge transfer, achieving a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 11.70%.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 48","pages":" 19570-19577"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142810224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dangli Gao, Chengxue Du, Yuqiang Wang, Wenqian Xu, Wenna Gao, Qing Pang and Yuhua Wang
{"title":"Controllable persistent luminescence in bismuth activated memory phosphors by trap management for artificial intelligence anti-counterfeiting†","authors":"Dangli Gao, Chengxue Du, Yuqiang Wang, Wenqian Xu, Wenna Gao, Qing Pang and Yuhua Wang","doi":"10.1039/D4TC03894K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC03894K","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The management of multicolour and multimode luminescence in persistent luminescence (PersL) materials plays a crucial role in encrypting information to combat forgery. Although luminescent anti-counterfeiting has made significant progresses, anti-counterfeiting signals only exhibit typical luminescent emission colours of materials under fixed external stimuli, which makes them susceptible to be replicated. Here, we developed a series of LiReGeO<small><sub>4</sub></small>:Bi,Ln (Re = Lu, Y and Gd, Ln = Eu, Tb, Pr, Yb, Sm, Tm, Ce, Dy and Er) phosphors with multicolour and on-demand controlled PersL emission through purposeful design of the electron–hole pair trap structure. Besides the multicolour and multimode emission, these phosphors demonstrated a temporal memory function for writing information, which provides a new dimension for higher-order anti-counterfeiting. As an example, LiLuGeO<small><sub>4</sub></small>:Bi,Ln (Ln = Eu, Tb, Pr and Yb) memory phosphors display the pattern signals in the order requested by the owner, which makes any sophisticated forgery technique powerless. The study here provides not only a simplistic method for constructing a new-type persistent memory material, but also a new paradigm of artificial intelligence memory for anti-counterfeiting technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 48","pages":" 19487-19497"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142810230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anupam Banerjee, Manas Kumar Mondal, D. De, S. Goswami, Souvick Das and P. K. Chakrabarti
{"title":"Exhibition of magnetic memory effects and exchange bias in nanocrystalline CoSb2O4","authors":"Anupam Banerjee, Manas Kumar Mondal, D. De, S. Goswami, Souvick Das and P. K. Chakrabarti","doi":"10.1039/D4TC02899F","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC02899F","url":null,"abstract":"<p >This article discusses the origin and exhibition of the exchange bias (EB) phenomenon and magnetic memory effect in a variety of time (<em>t</em>) and temperature (<em>T</em>) dependent protocols in nanocrystalline CoSb<small><sub>2</sub></small>O<small><sub>4</sub></small> (CSO). The traditional hydrothermal technique was followed in the preparation of cuboid shaped nanoparticles. The as-synthesized sample was characterized well <em>via</em> powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies revealing crystallite and particle sizes of ∼51 and ∼96 nm, respectively. Thermal variation of magnetization [<em>M</em>(<em>T</em>)] suggests creation of a canted antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground state with multiple magnetic transitions around 79, 50 and 11 K. Sizable orbital moment contribution has been validated from the mismatch between the experimental value and the theoretical estimation of the Curie–Weiss moment. Cooling field induced metastability below the first order magnetic transition and the explicit signature of the magneto-caloric-effect in terms of the change in entropy are two noteworthy features in this system. Below the ordering temperature, a substantial amount of EB (with EB field (<em>H</em><small><sub>E</sub></small>) = 800 Oe at 3 K with a 40 kOe cooling field) has been demonstrated through the shift in the magnetic hysteresis (<em>M</em>−<em>H</em>) loop when cooled in an external magnetic field. Exchange interaction originates due to the cumulative effect of disorder and competing interactions because of the coexistence of more than one type of spin order. Creation of a super-spin-glass (SSG) like state due to the finite size effect and a strong dipolar interaction in the nanoparticle assembly manifest the memory effect in <em>M</em>(<em>T</em>) in field-cooled (FC) and zero-field-cooled (ZFC) protocols along with isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM) mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 47","pages":" 19236-19244"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142778037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yajie Meng, Xi Chen, Yingqi Li, Yunlong Shang, Yulin Guo, Yong Wu, Haiyan Wei and Jiawei Xu
{"title":"Marcus inverted region in organic long-persistent luminescence host–guest systems designed from thermally activated delayed fluorescence molecules: a mechanistic study†","authors":"Yajie Meng, Xi Chen, Yingqi Li, Yunlong Shang, Yulin Guo, Yong Wu, Haiyan Wei and Jiawei Xu","doi":"10.1039/D4TC00805G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC00805G","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Organic long-persistent luminescence (OLPL) systems have long been experimentally investigated. First reported by Ifor D. W. Samuel <em>et al.</em>, OLPL can be observed upon doping thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecules in host materials of PPT, TPBi and PMMA and is proposed to proceed <em>via</em> a two-photon mechanism. In this work, OLPL that occurs upon doping CzPhAP in PPT/TPBi systems with charge-separation features was theoretically investigated to understand the essence of transformation from TADF to OLPL and to provide insights for further research. Theoretical results of this study revealed that OLPL emission from CzPhAP:PPT/TPBi systems proceeded <em>via</em> a double-luminescence mechanism. The main S<small><sub>3</sub></small> state emission peak (observed at 608 nm) was a mixture of TADF and OLPL. Moreover, large reorganization energy associated with converting S<small><sub>1</sub></small> into a low-lying charge-separation S<small><sub>3</sub></small> state enabled S<small><sub>3</sub></small> fluorescence with a larger emission rate (7.92 × 10<small><sup>7</sup></small> s<small><sup>−1</sup></small>) compared to that of S<small><sub>1</sub></small> fluorescence (3.94 × 10<small><sup>7</sup></small> s<small><sup>−1</sup></small>, shoulder peak observed at 584 nm). Thermodynamic equilibria between S<small><sub>1</sub></small> and low-lying charge-separation states of S<small><sub>3</sub></small> and T<small><sub>3</sub></small> were constructed, which stimulated fast conversion among the S<small><sub>1</sub></small>, S<small><sub>3</sub></small> and T<small><sub>3</sub></small> states. Furthermore, our investigations indicated that when the reorganization energy of the ISC process is smaller than that of rISC, a larger Δ<em>E</em><small><sub>ST</sub></small> value is required to obtain <em>k</em><small><sub>rISC</sub></small> > <em>k</em><small><sub>ISC</sub></small>. Although a larger Δ<em>E</em><small><sub>ST</sub></small> value will make the ISC process deeply rooted in the Marcus inverted region, the ISC process will be strongly hindered and TADF emission could not be observed. Meanwhile, OLPL emission was enhanced with a larger Δ<em>E</em><small><sub>ST</sub></small> owing to frustrated charge recombination to the neutral T<small><sub>1</sub></small> state and electron–hole dissociation could occur. More importantly, our study indicated that the essence of conversion of TADF into OLPL in CzPhAP:PPT/TPBi systems is due to a low-lying neutral T<small><sub>1</sub></small> state.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 1","pages":" 260-272"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142859420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zihao Liao, Yiping Yang, Dingrong Ou, Yuan Tang, Bo Wang, Binbin He, Yu Zeng, Yunfeng Tian and Bo Chi
{"title":"Enhanced oxygen electrode performance in solid oxide fuel cells via La-doping of Pr2NiO4+δ-based Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites†","authors":"Zihao Liao, Yiping Yang, Dingrong Ou, Yuan Tang, Bo Wang, Binbin He, Yu Zeng, Yunfeng Tian and Bo Chi","doi":"10.1039/D4TC03740E","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC03740E","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a high-efficiency, low-carbon power generation device that directly converts the chemical energy of fuel directly into electricity at elevated temperatures. However, the performance of the oxygen electrode, which is critical for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), remains limited by high polarization losses and limited long-term stability. Ruddlesden–Popper (R–P) perovskites, such as Ln<small><sub>2</sub></small>NiO<small><sub>4+<em>δ</em></sub></small> (Ln = La, Pr, Nd), offer excellent oxygen transport due to their unique A–O rock salt layers. In this study, La<small><sup>3+</sup></small>-doped Pr<small><sub>2−<em>x</em></sub></small>La<small><sub><em>x</em></sub></small>Ni<small><sub>0.8</sub></small>Cu<small><sub>0.2</sub></small>O<small><sub>4+<em>δ</em></sub></small> (<em>x</em> = 0, 0.5, 1.0, PL<small><sub><em>x</em></sub></small>NC) oxygen electrode materials are synthesized by the sol–gel method, and their electrochemical properties are systematically investigated. While the electrical conductivity decreases with increasing La<small><sup>3+</sup></small> content, PL<small><sub>0.5</sub></small>NC exhibits optimal oxygen surface exchange and bulk diffusion properties. SOFC using PL<small><sub>0.5</sub></small>NC as the oxygen electrode achieved excellent performance at 800 °C, with a polarization resistance of 0.245 Ω cm<small><sup>2</sup></small> and a peak power density of 0.864 W cm<small><sup>−2</sup></small>, a 64% improvement over PNC. This study highlights the potential of La<small><sup>3+</sup></small> doping to enhance PNO-based oxygen electrodes and provides insight into the development of high performance SOFC materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":84,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry C","volume":" 48","pages":" 19506-19514"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142810232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}