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June 21, 2017Nature Communications991 citationsOpen Access

Origin of fast ion diffusion in super-ionic conductors

XHXingfeng HeYZYizhou ZhuYMYifei Mo

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Super-ionic conductor materials have great potential to enable novel technologies in energy storage and conversion. However, it is not yet understood why only a few materials can deliver exceptionally higher ionic conductivity than typical solids or how one can design fast ion conductors following simple principles. Using ab initio modelling, here we show that fast diffusion in super-ionic conductors does not occur through isolated ion hopping as is typical in solids, but instead proceeds through concerted migrations of multiple ions with low energy barriers. Furthermore, we elucidate that the low energy barriers of the concerted ionic diffusion are a result of unique mobile ion configurations and strong mobile ion interactions in super-ionic conductors. Our results provide a general framework and universal strategy to design solid materials with fast ionic diffusion.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d890a28c03fbaff8bef6d0https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15893
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