Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

High oxide-ion conductivity through the interstitial oxygen site in Ba7Nb4MoO20-based hexagonal perovskite related oxides

  • Masatomo Yashima,
  • Takafumi Tsujiguchi,
  • Yuichi Sakuda,
  • Yuta Yasui,
  • Yu Zhou,
  • Kotaro Fujii,
  • Shuki Torii,
  • Takashi Kamiyama,
  • Stephen J. Skinner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20859-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Oxide-ion conductors are important in various applications for clean energy. Here, authors report high oxide-ion conductivity of hexagonal perovskite-related oxide Ba7Nb3.9Mo1.1O20.05, which is ascribed to the interstitialcy diffusion and low activation energy for oxide-ion conductivity.