“Stretching” the energy landscape of oxides—Effects on electrocatalysis and diffusion

B Yildiz - Mrs Bulletin, 2014 - cambridge.org
Elastic strain engineering offers a new route to enable high-performance catalysts,
electrochemical energy conversion devices, separation membranes and memristors. By …

Interfacial lattice-strain effects on improving the overall performance of micro-solid oxide fuel cells

K Wen, W Lv, W He - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Interfacial lattice-strain, typically capable of altering the energy states of electrical carriers
associated with hetero-interfaces, has shown unprecedented efficiency for improving the …

The effect of mechanical twisting on oxygen ionic transport in solid-state energy conversion membranes

Y Shi, AH Bork, S Schweiger, JLM Rupp - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Understanding 'electro–chemo–mechanics' in oxygen ion conducting membranes
represents a foundational step towards new energy devices such as micro fuel cells and …

In situ stress observation in oxide films and how tensile stress influences oxygen ion conduction

A Fluri, D Pergolesi, V Roddatis, A Wokaun… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Many properties of materials can be changed by varying the interatomic distances in the
crystal lattice by applying stress. Ideal model systems for investigations are heteroepitaxial …

Rare-earth-doped ceria systems and their performance as solid electrolytes: A puzzling tangle of structural issues at the average and local scale

C Artini - Inorganic Chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Rare-earth (RE)-doped ceria systems, in particular when RE≡ Nd, Sm, or Gd, are well-
known to be characterized by high values of ionic conductivity in the intermediate …

Strain related new sciences and devices in low-dimensional binary oxides

J Jiang, S Pendse, L Zhang, J Shi - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The possibility of generating a large range of elastic strain in low-dimensional materials
offers a vast design space that has led to a plethora of scientific and technological …

Coherency strain and its effect on ionic conductivity and diffusion in solid electrolytes–an improved model for nanocrystalline thin films and a review of experimental …

C Korte, J Keppner, A Peters, N Schichtel… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A phenomenological and analytical model for the influence of strain effects on atomic
transport in columnar thin films is presented. A model system consisting of two types of …

When two become one: An insight into 2D conductive oxide interfaces

N Pryds, V Esposito - Journal of Electroceramics, 2017 - Springer
Recent progress has led to conductance confinement at the interface of complex oxide
heterostructures, thereby providing new opportunities to explore nano-electronic as well as …

Vertically aligned nanocomposite electrolytes with superior out-of-plane ionic conductivity for solid oxide fuel cells

Q Su, D Yoon, A Chen, F Khatkhatay… - Journal of power …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Two-phase (Ce 0.9 Gd 0.1 O 1.95) 0.5/(Zr 0.92 Y 0.08 O 1.96) 0.5 (GDC/YSZ)
nanocomposite thin films with vertically aligned structure are grown as the electrolyte for thin …

The interplay and impact of strain and defect association on the conductivity of rare-earth substituted ceria

GF Harrington, L Sun, B Yildiz, K Sasaki, NH Perry… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
The effects of strain on the ionic conductivity of rare-earth substituted CeO 2 have been
extensively studied, but the results have been inconsistent and focused upon the …