Layered Perovskites BaLn(n)In(n)O(3n+1) (n = 1, 2) for Electrochemical Applications: A Mini Review

Modern humanity is facing many challenges, such as declining reserves of fossil energy resources and their increasing prices, climate change and an increase in the number of respiratory diseases including COVID-19. This causes an urgent need to create advanced energy materials and technologies to support the sustainable development of renewable energy systems including hydrogen energy. Layered perovskites have many attractions due to their physical and chemical properties. The structure of such compounds contains perovskite layers divided by layers with different frameworks, which provide their properties’ features. Proton-conduction layered perovskites open up a novel structural class of protonic conductors, potentially suitable for application in such hydrogen energy devices as protonic ceramic electrolysis cells and protonic ceramic fuel cells. In this mini review, the special features of proton transport in the novel class of proton conductors BaLn(n)In(n)O(3n+1) (n = 1, 2) with a layered perovskite structure are observed and general regularities are discussed.