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Meng J, Sheikh MS, Jacobs R, Liu J, Nachlas WO, Li X, Morgan D. Computational discovery of fast interstitial oxygen conductors. NATURE MATERIALS 2024:10.1038/s41563-024-01919-8. [PMID: 38871939 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01919-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024]
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New highly oxygen-active materials may enhance many energy-related technologies by enabling efficient oxygen-ion transport at lower temperatures, for example, below ~400 °C. Interstitial oxygen conductors have the potential to realize such performance but have received far less attention than vacancy-mediated conductors. Here we combine physically motivated structure and property descriptors, ab initio simulations and experiments to demonstrate an approach to discover new fast interstitial oxygen conductors. Multiple new families were found, which adopt completely different structures from known oxygen conductors. From these families, we synthesized and studied oxygen kinetics in La4Mn5Si4O22+δ, a representative member of the perrierite/chevkinite family. We found that La4Mn5Si4O22+δ has higher oxygen-ion conductivity than the widely used yttria-stabilized ZrO2, and among the highest surface oxygen exchange rates at the intermediate temperature of known materials. The fast oxygen kinetics is the result of simultaneously active interstitial and interstitialcy diffusion pathways. We propose that the essential features for forming an effective interstitial oxygen conductor are the availability of electrons and structural flexibility, enabling a sufficient accessible volume. This work provides a powerful approach for understanding and discovering new interstitial oxygen conductors.
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- Jun Meng
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- National Energy Technology Laboratory, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
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Liu Y, Wu R, Sun H, Chang A, Guo J, Zhang B. High-Entropy CeNbO 4+δ-Based Ceramics with Ultrahigh Comprehensive Thermosensitive Performances. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:28861-28873. [PMID: 38785114 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c04696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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Next-generation advanced high-temperature sensors rely heavily on negative temperature coefficient thermosensitive ceramics with low cost, small volume, high sensitivity, and fast response. However, thus far, the enormous challenge of achieving ultrahigh stability and accuracy has become a critical bottleneck restricting the development of thermosensitive ceramics in high-temperature sensor applications. Here, we propose a high-entropy strategy to design a "cation valence self-equilibrium" system in CeNbO4+δ-based ceramics introducing redox couple compensation and ultrahigh density dislocations to solve the problem of temperature-dependent oxygen nonstoichiometry that restricts the performances of high-temperature thermosensitive ceramics. Ferroelastic domains are generated by enhancing the configurational entropy at both A and B sites, resulting in a dramatic increase of dislocation density to >1010 mm-2, which ultimately optimizes the thermosensitive performances. Extreme temperature measurement accuracy with R2 as high as 999.98‰ and RSS as low as 0.011 and high-temperature stability with ΔR/R0 as low as 0.23% after aging at 873 K for 1000 h are realized in high-entropy CeNbO4+δ-based ceramics, indicating a breakthrough in the comprehensive performances of thermosensitive ceramics. This work opens up an effective way to design thermosensitive materials with ultrahigh comprehensive performance to meet the requirements of advanced high-temperature sensors.
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- Yafei Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environmental Conditions, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environmental Conditions, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environmental Conditions, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environmental Conditions, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environmental Conditions, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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Sun H, Wang Y, Liu Y, Wu R, Chang A, Zhao P, Zhang B. Enhanced Thermal Stability and Broad Temperature Range in High-Entropy (La 0.2Ce 0.2Nd 0.2Sm 0.2Eu 0.2)NbO 4 Ceramics. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024. [PMID: 38416064 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c00187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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Next-generation high-temperature applications increasingly rely heavily on advanced thermistor materials with enhanced thermal stability and electrical performance. However, thus far, the great challenge of realizing high thermal stability and precision in a wide temperature range has become a key bottleneck restricting the high-temperature application. Here, we propose a high-entropy strategy to design novel high-temperature thermistor ceramics (La0.2Ce0.2Nd0.2Sm0.2Eu0.2)NbO4. Differences in atomic size, mass, and electronegativity in this high-entropy system cause high lattice distortion, substantial grain boundaries, and high dislocation density. These enhance the charge carrier transport and reduce the grain boundary resistance, thus synergistically broadening the temperature range. Our samples maintain high precision and thermal stability over a wide temperature range from room temperature to 1523 K (ΔT = 1250 K) with an aging value as low as 0.42% after 1000 h at 1173 K, showing breakthrough progress in high-temperature thermistor ceramics. This study establishes an effective approach to enhancing the performance of high-temperature thermistor materials through high-entropy strategies.
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- Hao Sun
- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Urumqi 830011, China
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Yang X, Fernández-Carrión AJ, Kuang X. Oxide Ion-Conducting Materials Containing Tetrahedral Moieties: Structures and Conduction Mechanisms. Chem Rev 2023; 123:9356-9396. [PMID: 37486716 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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This Review presents an overview from the perspective of tetrahedral chemistry on various oxide ion-conducting materials containing tetrahedral moieties which have received continuous growing attention as candidates for key components of various devices, including solid oxide fuel cells and oxygen sensors, due to the deformation and rotation flexibility of tetrahedral units facilitating oxide ion transport. Emphasis is placed on the structural and mechanistic features of various systems ranging from crystalline to amorphous materials, which include a variety of gallates, silicates, germanates, molybdates, tungstates, vanadates, aluminates, niobate, titanates, indium oxides, and the newly reported borates. They contain tetrahedral units in either isolated or linked manners forming different polyhedral dimensionality (0 to 3) with various defect properties and transport mechanisms. The development of oxide ion conductors containing tetrahedral moieties and the elucidation of the roles of tetrahedral units in oxide ion migration have demonstrated diverse opportunities for discovering superior electrolytes for solid oxide fuel cells and other related devices and provided useful clues for uncovering the key factors directing fast oxide ion conduction.
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- Xiaoyan Yang
- MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metals and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optical and Electronic Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metals and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optical and Electronic Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metals and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optical and Electronic Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Functional Materials, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
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Qin J, Jiang P, Lu G, Wang R, Yang T. Temperature-driven order-disorder structural transition in the oxygen sub-lattice and the complex superstructure of the high-temperature polymorph of CaSrZn 2Ga 2O 7. Dalton Trans 2022; 51:18549-18561. [PMID: 36444814 DOI: 10.1039/d2dt03145k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Structural order-disorder plays a decisive role in the physical properties of materials, such as magnetism, second-order harmonic generation, and ionic conductivity, and it is thus widely utilized to manipulate the crystal structure and understand structure-property correlations. Herein, we report the structural polymorphism, complex crystal structure and temperature-driven irreversible order-disorder phase transition of the polar oxides (Sr1-xCax)SrZn2Ga2O7. The low-temperature (LT) structure crystallizes in Pna21 with partial Zn/Ga ordering. Upon heating, (Sr1-xCax)SrZn2Ga2O7 undergoes an irreversible phase transition from orthorhombic Pna21 to hexagonal P63. Interestingly, the high-temperature (HT) P63 structure possesses an unexpected 3/2-fold superstructure rather than a substructure of the low-temperature (LT) Pna21 structure, which is a rare structural phenomenon in solid-state chemistry. This new HT superstructure is the most complex one in this series of oxides with 21 crystallographically independent sites determined accurately by a combination of the maximum entropy method and Rietveld refinement against high-resolution neutron powder diffraction data. In terms of the mechanism, this is a temperature-driven order-to-disorder transition in the oxygen sublattice. A careful structural analysis revealed that the oxygen disordering mainly occurs in the [SrO3] layers of the HT structure and it can be understood as respective clockwise and anticlockwise rotations of distinct GaO4-tetrahedra along the c-axis. Alternating current electrochemical impedance spectroscopic analysis revealed that the oxygen disordering in the HT structure is incapable of giving rise to oxide ionic conductivity but does lead to increased electronic conduction compared to the LT structure. The optical properties of the CaSrZn2Ga2O7 and Sr2Zn2Ga2O7 representatives are also investigated in-depth via diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and theoretic calculations.
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- Jie Qin
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 401331, P. R. China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 401331, P. R. China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 401331, P. R. China.
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- School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Chongqing University of Science & Technology, Chongqing 401331, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 401331, P. R. China.
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Hodeau JL, Marezio M. Correlation between the twinning process and oxygen insertion in CeNbO4+x phases. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2022.123783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Yang X, Zeng X, Ming X, Yang L, Fernández Carrión AJ, Deng S, He L, Kuang X. Oxide-ion Conductivity Optimization in BiVO 4 Scheelite by Acceptor Doping Strategy. Inorg Chem Front 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2qi00314g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BiVO4 scheelite is one of the few tetrahedra-based structures able to display vacancy-mediated oxide ion conduction upon acceptor doping strategy, leading to oxide ionic migration. In order to modulate the...
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Cheng Z, Yang J, Jiang P, Huang H, da-Silva I, Gao W, Cong R, Yang T. Enhancing the oxide-ionic conductivity of Ba 3Mo 1+xNb 1-2xGe xO 8.5 at intermediate temperatures: the effect of site-selective Ge 4+-substitution. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:17249-17256. [PMID: 34786583 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt02469h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Significant oxide-ionic conductivity has been recently reported for a family of cation-deficient hexagonal perovskite derivatives Ba3M2O8.5 (M = Mo/W6+ and Nb5+/V5+). Herein, strong 4-fold coordination geometry preferring Ge4+ ions are doped into Ba3Mo1+xNb1-2xGexO8.5 to manipulate the oxygen distribution within palmierite-like layers for the enhancement of oxide-ionic conductivity. Rietveld refinement of the neutron diffraction data of Ba3Mo1.2Nb0.6Ge0.2O8.5 reveals that Ge4+-ions are selectively incorporated into the palmierite-like layers, owing to their strong 4-fold coordination environment preference. Such a site-selective doping behavior leads to an increase in the occupation proportion of the O3 site and a concomitant decrease in the occupancy factor for O2. Ionic conduction measurements show that the bulk conductivity of Ba3Mo1.2Nb0.6Ge0.2O8.5 is about twice higher than that of the parent compound at intermediate temperatures (300-500 °C). Furthermore, bond-valence site energy (BVSE) landscape analysis reveals that the oxygen ionic conduction of Ba3Mo1+xNb1-2xGexO8.5 is dominated by the two-dimensional pathways along the palmierite-like layers, despite the three-dimensional (3D) oxygen diffusion pathways being present in the hybrid structure, which strongly confirms that the enhancement in ionic conductivity at intermediate temperatures is attributed to the site-selective Ge4+-substitution-induced redistribution of oxygen ions within the palmierite-like layers.
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- Zien Cheng
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangtze Normal University, Chongqing 408100, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, P. R. China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, P. R. China.
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- ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, OX110QX, UK
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, P. R. China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, P. R. China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, P. R. China.
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Liu W, Geng S, Zhang W, Liao F, Tang M, Fu H, Kuang X. Experimental and Theoretical Solid-State 29Si NMR Studies on Defect Structures in La 9.33+x(SiO 4) 6O 2+1.5x Apatite Oxide Ion Conductors. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:16817-16825. [PMID: 34677070 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Oxide ion conductors can be used as electrolytes in solid oxide fuel cells, a promising energy-conversion technology. Local structures around the defects in oxide ion conductors are key for understanding the defect stabilization and migration mechanisms. As the defect contents are generally low, it is rather difficult to characterize the defect structure and therefore elucidate how oxide ions migrate. Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for probing the local structures. However, the interpretation of NMR signals mainly based on the empirical knowledge could lead to unprecise local structures. There is still controversy regarding the defect structures in the apatite-type interstitial oxide ion conductors containing isolated tetrahedral units. Here, we combine the experimental solid-state 29Si NMR spectroscopy with theoretical density functional theory calculations to investigate the defect structures in La9.33+x(SiO4)6O2+1.5x apatites. The results indicate that the 29Si resonance signals on the high field side of the main peak corresponding to the Si atoms in the bulk structure are related to La vacancies and there is no steady-state SiO5 in the defect structures. This finding provides new atomic-level understanding to the stabilization and migration of interstitial oxide ions in silicate apatites, which could guide the design and discovery of new solid oxide fuel cell electrolyte materials.
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- Wenhao Liu
- MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metals and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optic and Electronic Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metals and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optic and Electronic Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metals and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optic and Electronic Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing 100094, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of New Processing Technology for Nonferrous Metals and Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Optic and Electronic Materials and Devices, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China.,Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical and Magnetochemical Functional Materials, College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P. R. China
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Zhao L, Geng S, Feng J, Yin C, Kuang X. Molecular dynamics simulations of oxide ion migration in La2Ga3O7.5 with completely ordered interstitial oxide ions. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2021.122370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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