Structure, chemical stability and electrical properties of BaCe0.9Y0.1O3-δ modified with V2O5

Wet vacuum impregnation method was applied in order to evaluate the possibility of the formation of the material in BaCe0.9Y0.1O3-delta-V2O5 system. Single-phase BaCe0.9Y0.1O3-delta samples, synthesised by solid-state reaction method, were impregnated with the solution of vanadium(V) oxide precursor. Multi-step, multi-cycle impregnation procedure was applied to enhance the impregnation efficiency. Partial decomposition of Y-doped BaCeO3 in contact with the solution of the precursor, resulting in the formation of vanadium containing phases (CeVO4 and BaV2O6) on the materials surface, was observed. However, the presence of vanadium was also confirmed for the inner parts of the materials. The synthesised materials were submitted for exposition test to evaluate their chemical stability towards CO2/H2O. All BaCe0.9Y0.1O3-based materials modified by impregnation revealed higher chemical stability in comparison with single-phase un-modified BaCe0.9Y0.1O3-delta, since the amount of barium carbonate formed during the exposition was significantly lower. The total electrical conductivity of the received multi-phase materials was generally slightly lower than for the reference BaCe0.9Y0.1O3-delta sample, since the presence of the additional phases had a blocking effect on materials conductivity. The values of BaCeO3 lattice parameters and the Seebeck coefficient did not show the modification of the defects structure of Y-doped BaCeO3 during applied synthesis procedure.