Preparation and performance study of three-dimensional interconnected structured electrodes with lamellar connections

In this study, we developed an innovative strategy to fabricate perovskite oxide powder with 12.356 m 2 /g of specific surface area. Polyacrylamide hydrogel was used as a template to prepare Sm 0.5 Sr 0.5 CoO 3-δ (SSC) powders with lamellar structure. The three-dimensional interconnected structured SSC electrodes with lamellar connections were fabricate using screen printing method. As a result, the oxygen vacancy concentration of the SSC powder obtained by the polyacrylamide template method was 0.625 and 0.642 at 650 °C and 700 °C respectively. At 650°C, the polarization resistance value was 0.11 Ω cm 2 for the novel SSC-PAM-V cathode. Compared with the SSC-SG cathode, the polarization resistance and activation energy of SSC-PAM-V were reduced by 50 % and 6.9 %, respectively. Furthermore, in a single cell with SSC-PAM-V electrodes, we achieved a maximum power density of 935 and 1243 mW cm −2 at 650 °C and 700 °C under wet H 2 conditions, demonstrating good electrochemical output performance. The layered porous electrode was not only suitable for the diffusion of oxygen, but also for increasing the reactive active sites. The proposed powder prepared with polyacrylamide hydrogel as template, was not only suitable for the optimization of perovskite oxide, but also for the application in other types of catalysis, providing the potential for improving the electro-catalytic activity of perovskite electrodes.