Abstract
We report a microporous material, 12CaO·7Al2O3 (C12A7), that encages large amounts (∼2 × 1020 cm-3) of O- ions and provides efficient conversion of O2 into O- ions using its inverse zeolitic structure (i.e., anions are encaged in the positively-charged lattice framework) and fast oxygen ion conductivity. Applying an electric field to the compound enables selective sustainable emission of O- ions with a beam intensity larger, by three orders of magnitude, than that obtained for YSZ.