{"id":241030,"date":"2026-07-17T00:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-ions-flow-like-a-liquid-through-a-solid-crystal"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:23:09","slug":"how-ions-flow-like-a-liquid-through-a-solid-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-ions-flow-like-a-liquid-through-a-solid-crystal","title":{"rendered":"How ions flow like a liquid through a solid crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-ions-flow-like-a-liquid-through-a-solid-crystal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by the University of Osaka, working with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), RIKEN and the Institute of Science Tokyo, has uncovered a fundamental mechanism behind superionic conduction, in which ions move rapidly through a solid while its crystalline framework remains intact.<\/p>\n<p>Using a simple physical model, the researchers connected \u201csublattice melting\u201d with cooperative and spatially heterogeneous ion transport. The findings offer a unified explanation for superionic conduction and could help guide the design of next-generation solid-state batteries.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2605867123\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by the University of Osaka, working with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), RIKEN and the Institute of Science Tokyo, has uncovered a fundamental mechanism behind superionic conduction, in which ions move rapidly through a solid while its crystalline framework remains intact. Using a simple physical model, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}