New emerging disciplines such as Nanoionics and Iontronics are dealing with the exploitation of mesoscopic size effects in materials, which become visible (if not predominant) when downsizing the system to the nanoscale. Driven by the worldwide standardisation of thin film deposition techniques, the access to radically different properties than those found in the bulk macroscopic systems can be accomplished. This opens up promising approaches for the development of advanced micro-devices, by taking advantage of the nanostructural deviations found in nanometre-sized, interface-dominated materials compared to the “ideal” relaxed structure of the bulk. A completely new set of functionalities can be explored, with implications in many different fields such as energy conversion and storage, or information technologies. This manuscript reviews the strategies, employed and foreseen, for engineering mass transport properties in thin film ceramics, with the focus in oxide ionic and mixed ionic-electronic conductors and their application in micro power sources.

诸如Nanoionics和Iontronics之类的新兴学科正在处理材料中介观尺寸效应的利用，当将系统缩小至纳米级时，这些效应将变得可见（如果不是主要的话）。在全球范围内薄膜沉积技术的标准化推动下，可以实现与本体宏观系统中发现的性质完全不同的性质。与本体的“理想”松弛结构相比，这利用了在纳米级，界面主导的材料中发现的纳米结构偏差，为开发先进的微器件开辟了有希望的方法。可以探索一套全新的功能，并涉及许多不同领域，例如能量转换和存储或信息技术。