A review of defect structure and chemistry in ceria and its solid solutions

R Schmitt, A Nenning, O Kraynis, R Korobko… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ceria and its solid solutions play a vital role in several industrial processes and devices.
These include solar energy-to-fuel conversion, solid oxide fuel and electrolyzer cells …

Defining “giant” electrostriction

J Yu, PE Janolin - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The recent discovery of “giant” electrostrictors has re-ignited the interest in electrostriction,
an electromechanical coupling existing in all dielectrics but overshadowed by its linear …

Oxygen-defective electrostrictors for soft electromechanics

VB Tinti, JK Han, V Frederiksen, H Chen… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Electromechanical metal oxides, such as piezoceramics, are often incompatible with soft
polymers due to their crystallinity requirements, leading to high processing temperatures …

[HTML][HTML] Electromechanical coupling in alkaline-earth doped-ceria ceramics

VB Tinti, A Kabir, DZ de Florio, V Esposito - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Oxygen-deficient cerium oxide ceramics exhibit an anomalously high electromechanical
response called giant electrostriction. This feature has been linked to the polarization and …

Non-classical electrostriction in calcium-doped cerium oxide ceramics

A Kabir, VB Tinti, S Santucci, M Varenik… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Oxygen-defective metal oxides, eg, acceptor-doped CeO2, demonstrate exceptionally large
electrostrictive responses compared to state-of-the-art electromechanically active ceramic …

Large Nonclassical Electrostriction in (Y, Nb)‐Stabilized δ‐Bi2O3

N Yavo, AD Smith, O Yeheskel, S Cohen… - Advanced Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Classical electrostriction, describing a second‐order electromechanical response of
insulating solids, scales with elastic compliance, S, and inversely with dielectric …

Modeling strain distribution at the atomic level in doped ceria films with extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy

O Kraynis, J Timoshenko, J Huang, H Singh… - Inorganic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ceria doped with trivalent dopants exhibits nonclassical electrostriction, strong anelasticity,
and room-temperature (RT) mechanical creep. These phenomena, unexpected for a …

Electro-chemo-mechanical effect in Gd-doped ceria thin films with a controlled orientation

S Santucci, H Zhang, S Sanna, N Pryds… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Gd-doped ceria (CGO) fluorite exhibits prominent electro-chemo-mechanical properties and
giant-electrostriction at room temperature and has been recently disclosed in both CGO …

Key-features in processing and microstructure for achieving giant electrostriction in gadolinium doped ceria thin films

M Hadad, H Ashraf, G Mohanty, C Sandu, P Muralt - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Gadolinium doped ceria is a well-known oxygen ion conduction material for solid fuel cell
electrolytes. With its centrosymmetric average lattice and relatively low bulk dielectric …

Electro‐chemomechanical contribution to mechanical actuation in Gd‐doped ceria membranes

E Mishuk, A Ushakov, E Makagon… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Gd‐doped ceria (CGO), one of the most extensively studied oxygen ion conductors,
is a low dielectric constant/low mechanical compliance material exhibiting large …