Strongly enhanced oxygen ion transport through samarium-doped CeO2 nanopillars in nanocomposite films

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yang, Sang Mo ^a,b,c   Lee, Shinbuhm ^d   Jian, Jie ^e   Zhang, Wenrui ^e   Lu, Ping ^f   Jia, Quanxi ^g   Wang, Haiyan ^e   Won Noh, Tae ^b,c   Kalinin, Sergei V ^a   MacManus Driscoll, Judith L ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^f SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^g LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOFILM; OXYGEN; SAMARIUM;

CERIUM; COMPOSITE; FILM; FUEL CELL; GEOMETRY; ION EXCHANGE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROBE; SAMARIUM; SENSOR;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRONICS; GEOMETRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84943775469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9588     Document Type: Article

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