Vivat to the grant holder!

  of the Institute of High Temperature Electrochemistry of the UB RAS,  became a grant-holder of the Government and the President of the Russian Federation. The  mainstream of his research is the development and study of high-performance electrode materials for medium-temperature electrochemical devices based on proton-conducting electrolytes (SOFC or TOE). Now Artem is investigating phases of complex oxides based on layered praseodymium nickelide Pr₂NiO₄, doped with copper and barium. The young scientist established that doping with copper leads to a decrease in polarization resistance and an improvement in the sintering ability of electrodes, as well as a decrease in the thermal coefficients of linear expansion. It was experimentally confirmed that the partial substitution of barium for praseodymium led to the cationic transfer blocking  between the Pr₂NiO₄ electrode and the electrolyte based on barium cerate zirconate Ba (Ce, Zr)O₃. Due to these improvements, the materials under study can become promising electrodes for the SOFC and TOE.
We congratulate Artyom  and wish him further success and great discoveries!