Ionic Conductivity of Mesostructured Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Thin Films with Cubic Pore Symmetry - On the Influence of Water on the Surface Oxygen Ion Transport

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 11792-11801

  Elm, Matthias T ^a   Hofmann, Jonas D ^a   Suchomski, Christian ^a,b   Janek, Jürgen ^a   Brezesinski, Torsten ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

mesoporous; nanoionics; proton conductivity; self assembly; surface effects; yttria stabilized zirconia

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; IONIC CONDUCTIVITY; OXYGEN; OXYGEN VACANCIES; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PROTON CONDUCTIVITY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOL-GELS; SURFACE DEFECTS; THIN FILMS; YTTRIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIA;

AMPHIPHILIC DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; EVAPORATION INDUCED SELF ASSEMBLIES; HIGH SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; MESOPOROUS; NANOIONICS; SURFACE EFFECT; YTTRIA-STABILIZED ZIRCONIA THIN FILMS; YTTRIA-STABILIZED ZIRCONIAS (YSZ);

YTTRIA STABILIZED ZIRCONIA;

EID: 84935915292     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01001     Document Type: Article

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