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Dr Samuel J Cooper

Faculty of Engineering, Dyson School of Design Engineering

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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samuel.cooper Website

 
 
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Dyson BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Cooper:2017:10.1039/C7CP01317E,
author = {Cooper, SJ and Niania, M and Hoffmann and Kilner, J},
doi = {10.1039/C7CP01317E},
journal = {Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics},
pages = {12199--12205},
title = {Back-exchange: a novel approach to quantifying oxygen diffusion and surface exchange in ambient atmospheres},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7CP01317E},
volume = {19},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - A novel two-step Isotopic Exchange (IE) technique has been developed to investigate the influence of oxygen containing components of ambient air (such as HO and CO) on the effective surface exchange coefficient (k) of a common mixed ionic electronic conductor material. The two step 'back-exchange' technique was used to introduce a tracer diffusion profile, which was subsequently measured using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS). The isotopic fraction of oxygen in a dense sample as a function of distance from the surface, before and after the second exchange step, could then be used to determine the surface exchange coefficient in each atmosphere. A new analytical solution was found to the diffusion equation in a semi-infinite domain with a variable surface exchange boundary, for the special case where D and k are constant for all exchange steps. This solution validated the results of a numerical, Crank-Nicolson type finite-difference simulation, which was used to extract the parameters from the experimental data. When modelling electrodes, D and k are important input parameters, which significantly impact performance. In this study La.Sr.Co.Fe.O-δ (LSCF6428) was investigated and it was found that the rate of exchange was increased by around 250% in ambient air compared to high purity oxygen at the same pO. The three experiments performed in this study were used to validate the back-exchange approach and show its utility.
AU  - Cooper,SJ
AU  - Niania,M
AU  - Hoffmann
AU  - Kilner,J
DO  - 10.1039/C7CP01317E
EP  - 12205
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1463-9084
SP  - 12199
TI  - Back-exchange: a novel approach to quantifying oxygen diffusion and surface exchange in ambient atmospheres
T2  - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7CP01317E
UR  - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/samuel.cooper
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/48144
VL  - 19
ER  -
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