Abstract
Solid oxide proton conductors are crucially emerging as key materials for enabling hydrogen-based energy conversion, storage, and electrochemical technologies. Oxides crystallising in the ideal ABO3perovskite structure, such as barium cerates and zirconates, are widely investigated thanks to their excellent proton conducting properties. Nevertheless, alternative structure-type solid oxide systems (hexagonal perovskite derivatives, brownmillerite, scheelite,etc.) can efficiently incorporate and enable the transport of protonic defects, with recent reports of materials exhibiting high ionic conductivity comparable to the conventional perovskite conductors. This perspective provides an overview of these alternative and less established proton conducting materials, with particular attention to the relationship between the structural and ionic conduction features and the mechanistic aspects. The goals are to highlight the differences between these materials and the traditional perovskites and to point out new potential crystal routes for the discovery of innovative solid oxide proton conductors.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 18836-18856 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Journal of Materials Chemistry A |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 35 |
Early online date | 4 Aug 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 21 Sept 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2017-351) is gratefully acknowledged.