“…There have been different approaches to investigate the oxygen permeation through the interconnect materials, including the electrical conductivity relaxation method [42], electron blocking electrode method [43,44], oxygen tracer diffusion method [45,46], and electrochemical method employing zirconia oxygen pump [45,46]. Most of these experiments were performed under a homogeneous or small step of oxygen partial pressure, and the estimation of oxygen permeation flux under the large oxygen chemical potential gradient is controversial [42,43,45]. In this study, the SOFC operating condition was simulated by exposing one side of a dense Y 0.8 Ca 0.2 Cr 0.85 Ni 0.15 O 3±ı disc to an oxidizing atmosphere (pO 2 = 0.21 atm) and the other side to a reducing atmosphere (pO 2 = ∼10 −20 atm).…”