Journal
NANO ENERGY
Volume 85, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.105944
Keywords
Self-doping; Dislocations; Mesoscopic dislocation structure; Dislocation tuned functionality; High temperature deformation; Defect chemistry
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- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) [91669061]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [398795637]
- JST PRESTO [JPMJPR199A]
- JSPS KAKENHI, Japan [JP19H05786, JP18H03840]
- Nanotechnology Platform Program of MEXT, Japan
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This study demonstrates that dislocations can be used to modulate the conductivity of ceramic materials by accurately controlling the arrangement of dislocations, achieving effects similar to chemical doping. By combining various testing methods, mechanical control of the interaction between neighboring dislocations is achieved, allowing differentiation between conducting pathways and separated charge regions.
Dislocations have been recently introduced as a novel tool to tailor the conductivity of functional ceramics. However, tuning strategies suffer from poor insight into the structural complexity of dislocations and their networks. Here, we demonstrate that dislocations can be used to both enhance and reduce the overall conductivity in the same ceramic material. Accurate control of the arrangement of dislocations within the dislocation network enables tailoring TiO2 bulk samples to behave like being chemically modified either with an acceptor or donor dopant. Our approach combines ultra-high voltage electron microscopy, oxygen partial pressure, and temperature dependent electrical conductivity measurements combined with time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry. This allows us to focus on mechanically tailored interaction of next neighbor dislocations and to differentiate between percolating conductive pathways and separated charge carrier zones. This seemingly simple approach purposefully tailors the conductivity of TiO2, opening new avenues to engineer functional ceramics beyond common chemical doping strategies.
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