Journal
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 12, Pages 3637-3645Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ee02941d
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- DOE EERE [DE-EE0002978]
- Integrated Materials Research Center for the Low-Carbon Society (LC-IMR), Tohoku University
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- JSPS [25220911, 26820311]
- NSF [DMR-0944772]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26820311] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Solid electrolytes with sufficiently high conductivities and stabilities are the elusive answer to the inherent shortcomings of organic liquid electrolytes prevalent in today's rechargeable batteries. We recently revealed a novel fast-ion-conducting sodium salt, Na2B12H12, which contains large, icosahedral, divalent B12H122- anions that enable impressive superionic conductivity, albeit only above its 529 K phase transition. Its lithium congener, Li2B12H12, possesses an even more technologically prohibitive transition temperature above 600 K. Here we show that the chemically related LiCB11H12 and NaCB11H12 salts, which contain icosahedral, monovalent CB11H12- anions, both exhibit much lower transition temperatures near 400 K and 380 K, respectively, and truly stellar ionic conductivities (>0.1 S cm(-1)) unmatched by any other known polycrystalline materials at these temperatures. With proper modifications, we are confident that room-temperature-stabilized superionic salts incorporating such large polyhedral anion building blocks are attainable, thus enhancing their future prospects as practical electrolyte materials in next-generation, all-solid-state batteries.
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