Engineering the Building Blocks of Novel Interfacial Metastable Oxide Materials

该项目旨在设计最近发现并获得专利的界面亚稳氧化物（i-MOx）的新材料家族的构建模块。一个关键的发现是与晶体结构相邻的界面柱状原子排列，使材料具有远远超出现有技术水平的特殊离子传导性，对离子传输膜、燃料电池电极和热循环氧气生产具有广泛的吸引力。先进的表征技术将被用来从根本上阐明界面结构在提供卓越性能方面所起的作用。这些成果将导致新兴绿色能源应用的先进材料的可能突破。

This project aims to engineer the building blocks of a new family of materials recently discovered and patented as interfacial metastable oxide (i-MOx). A key discovery is the interfacial columnar atom alignment adjacent to crystal structures, conferring the materials exceptional ionic conduction well beyond the state-of-the-art, with a broad appeal to ionic transport membranes, electrodes in fuel cells and thermal cycling oxygen production. Advanced characterisation techniques will be employed to fundamentally elucidate the role that the interfacial structure plays to deliver remarkable performance. The outcomes will lead to possible breakthroughs in advanced materials for emerging green energy applications.