Minimal Transport Units Govern Oxygen‐Defect Stabilization and Transport for Lightweight Solid Electrolytes
Xiaohui Li, Yongkang Zheng, Li Yang, Xiaoge Wang, Yuan Gou, Guanqun Cai, Jie Liu, Cheng Li, Kun Lin, Qiang Li, Mingxue Tang, Junliang Sun, Xianran Xing, Xiaojun Kuang · 2026
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Xiaohui Li and fourteen co-authors propose a leaner design for materials that carry oxygen ions, in a paper from twenty twenty-six. Such solids power fuel cells, sensors, and gas separation, but most rest on heavy atoms in stiff frames. That makes them heavy and slow, and hard to improve.
Their idea builds everything from the smallest working unit: a boron atom ringed by three oxygens. A test material made of these lone units carried oxygen ions well at high heat and stayed strong and stable. Missing oxygens were held in paired units rather than lone broken ones. Ions moved by constant exchange between the two unit forms. The authors offer the recipe as a general route to light electrolytes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiaohui Li, Yongkang Zheng, Li Yang, Xiaoge Wang, Yuan Gou, Guanqun Cai, Jie Liu, Cheng Li, Kun Lin, Qiang Li, Mingxue Tang, Junliang Sun, Xianran Xing, Xiaojun Kuang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |