Conduction below 100 °C in nominal Li6ZnNb4O14

Yunchao Li, Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, Lance W. Gill, Edward W. Hagaman, Yangyang Wang, Alexi P. Sokolov, Sheng Dai, Cheng Ma, Miaofang Chi, Gabriel M. Veith, Arumugam Manthiram, John B. Goodenough

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Abstract

The increasing demand for a safe rechargeable battery with a high energy density per cell is driving a search for a novel solid electrolyte with a high Li+ or Na+ conductivity that is chemically stable in a working Li-ion or Na-ion battery. Li6ZnNb4O14 (LZNO) has been reported to exhibit a σLi > 10−2 S cm−1 at 250 °C, but to disproportionate into multiple phases on cooling from 850 °C to room-temperature. An investigation of the room-temperature Li-ion conductivity in a porous pellet of a multiphase product of a nominal LZNO composition is shown to have bulk σLi ≈ 3.3 × 10−5 S cm−1 at room-temperature that increases to 1.4 × 10−4 S cm−1 by 50 °C. 7Li MAS NMR spectra were fitted to two Lorentzian lines, one of which showed a dramatic increase with increasing temperature. A test for water stability indicates that Li+ may move to the particle and grain surfaces to react with adsorbed water as occurs in the garnet Li+ conductors.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)854-860
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Materials Science
Volume51
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2016

Funding

The research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division. The NMR research (L.W.G. and E.W.H.) was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division. Scanning electron microscopy research was supported through a user project supported by ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), which is sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. John B. Goodenough was supported by the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy grant number (DE-SC0005397).

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