The Preparation of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Toward Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity via Glucose-Assisted Sol-Gel Strategy
摘要
Strontium-doped lanthanum manganite perovskites are widely regarded as benchmark cathode materials for metal-air batteries owing to their excellent thermochemical stability. However, their low-temperature oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity is often limited by surface Sr segregation and an insufficient density of active sites. Herein, we report a glucose-assisted sol-gel strategy to effectively modulate the surface electronic structure of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO). Electrochemical measurements demonstrate that the catalyst prepared with 20 wt% glucose (LSMO-20) exhibits optimal ORR performance, delivering a limiting diffusion current density of 5.36 mA cm-2, which markedly exceeds that of pristine LSMO (4.68 mA cm–2). Kinetic analyses reveal that LSMO-20 possesses the appropriate Tafel slope and an almost ideal electron transfer number (n = 3.98), indicating a highly efficient four-electron ORR pathway. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy further confirms that glucose incorporation not only effectively suppresses the segregation of insulating surface Sr species, reducing the surface-to-lattice Sr ratio from 1.06 to 0.82, but also regulates the surface Mn valence by enriching Mn3+ species and promotes the formation of oxygen vacancies, yielding an elevated Oads/Olat ratio of 1.62. These findings demonstrate that tuning surface chemical states through organic additives offers an effective and scalable approach for designing high-performance perovskite electrocatalysts.
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