In-situ study of oxygen storage materials in the Zr-Ce-O system

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Zirconia-ceria ceramics are promising materials within automotive exhaust catalysts, exploiting the Ce3+Ce4+ redox reactions to store oxygen. For a Zr:Ce ratio of 1:1 it is possible to prepare materials with a long-range ordered array of Zr4+ and Ce4+ ('filled pyrochlore structure', kappa-CeZrO4), or with a disordered arrangement of the cations in a tetragonal distortion of the fluorite structure (t'-Zr0.5Ce0.5O2). Both can be reduced fully to to Ce3+ and, remarkably, the cation sublattice remains ordered/disordered in each case as oxygen is removed. However, kappa-CeZrO4 shows far superior oxygen storage properties, with O2- migration occuring more rapidly and at lower temperatures than in t'-Zr0.5Ce0.5O2. A neutron diffraction study of both systems as a function of oxygen partial pressure at high temperature on Polaris will attempt to explain this observation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089238
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089238
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Creator Professor Sten Eriksson; Dr Stefan Norberg; Mr Francis Kinyanjui; Dr Steve Hull; Miss Golnar Azimi; Dr Henrik Leion; Mr Mario Burbano; Dr Maths Karlsson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-07-23T08:53:10Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-08-06T09:40:15Z