“…Perovskite-type yttrium-doped barium zirconate BaZr 0.9 Y 0.1 O 3-δ (BZY10) is a well-known proton conducting material promising for intermediate-temperature electrochemical applications due to high proton conductivity and good chemical stability [1,2,3,4]. The defect chemistry of BZY10, which is of key importance for understanding its conductivity, was studied using a number of techniques such as thermogravimetry (TGA) in water vapour containing atmosphere [2,3,5,6], conductivity measurements under wide range of conditions [4,5,7], quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) [8,9], nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) [10], X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) [11] and computer simulations [12,13,14,15]. As a result, the nature of proton defects in BZY10 is relatively well studied [16,17].…”