Characteristic fast H- ion conduction in oxygen-substituted lanthanum hydride.
Nat Commun
; 10(1): 2578, 2019 06 12.
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ABSTRACT
Fast ionic conductors have considerable potential to enable technological development for energy storage and conversion. Hydride (H-) ions are a unique species because of their natural abundance, light mass, and large polarizability. Herein, we investigate characteristic H- conduction, i.e., fast ionic conduction controlled by a pre-exponential factor. Oxygen-doped LaH3 (LaH3-2xOx) has an optimum ionic conductivity of 2.6 × 10-2 Sâ¯cm-1, which to the best of our knowledge is the highest H- conductivity reported to date at intermediate temperatures. With increasing oxygen content, the relatively high activation energy remains unchanged, whereas the pre-exponential factor decreases dramatically. This extraordinarily large pre-exponential factor is explained by introducing temperature-dependent enthalpy, derived from H- trapped by lanthanum ions bonded to oxygen ions. Consequently, light mass and large polarizability of H-, and the framework comprising densely packed H- in LaH3-2xOx are crucial factors that impose significant temperature dependence on the potential energy and implement characteristic fast H- conduction.
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