title: Kinetics of nitric oxide and oxygen gases on porous Y-stabilized ZrO2-based sensors.
abstract: Using impedance spectroscopy the electrical response of sensors with various porous Y-stabilized ZrO2 (YSZ) microstructures was measured for gas concentrations containing 0-100 ppm NO with 10.5%O2 at temperatures ranging from 600-700 °C. The impedance response increased substantially as the sensor porosity increased from 46%-50%. Activation energies calculated based on data from the impedance measurements increased in magnitude (97.4-104.9 kJ/mol for 100 ppm NO) with respect to increasing YSZ porosity. Analysis of the oxygen partial pressure dependence of the sensors suggested that dissociative adsorption was the dominant rate limiting. The PWC/DNP theory level was used to investigate the gas-phase energy barrier of the 2NO+O2 → 2NO2 reaction on a 56-atom YSZ/Au model cluster using Density Functional Theory and Linear Synchronous Transit/Quadratic Synchronous Transit calculations. The reaction path shows oxygen surface reactions that begin with NO association with adsorbed O2 on a Zr surface site, followed by O2 dissociative adsorption, atomic oxygen diffusion, and further NO2 formation. The free energy barrier was calculated to be 181.7 kJ/mol at PWC/DNP. A qualitative comparison with the extrapolated data at 62% ± 2% porosity representing the YSZ model cluster indicates that the calculated barriers are in reasonable agreement with experiments, especially when the RPBE functional is used.
authors: Chemical Engineering and Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA. ski002@latech.edu
authors: Sajin
authors: S
authors: Killa
authors: Ling
authors: L
authors: Cui
authors: Erica P
authors: EP
authors: Murray
authors: Daniela S
authors: DS
authors: Mainardi
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D007700:Kinetics; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity; D015040:Zirconium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D009569:Nitric Oxide; D015040:Zirconium; C028541:zirconium oxide; D010100:Oxygen
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