期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 12, 期 34, 页码 38570-38583出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c10361
关键词
lithium borohydride; nanoconfinement; electrolytes; dynamics; conductivity; NMR
资金
- Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy
- Christian-Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft
- FFG (The Austrian Research Promotion Agency) in the frame of the project Safe Battery
- Klima-und Energiefonds of the FFG [853627]
- NWO materials for sustainability (Mat4Sus) [739.017.009]
- NWO-ECHO [712.015.005]
Solid electrolytes based on LiBH4 receive much attention because of their high ionic conductivity, electrochemical robustness, and low interfacial resistance against Li metal. The highly conductive hexagonal modification of LiBH4 can be stabilized via the incorporation of LiI. If the resulting LiBH4-LiI is confined to the nanopores of an oxide, such as Al2O3, interface-engineered LiBH4-LiI/Al2O3 is obtained that revealed promising properties as a solid electrolyte. The underlying principles of Li+ conduction in such a nanocomposite are, however, far from being understood completely. Here, we used broadband conductivity spectroscopy and H-1, Li-6, Li-7, B-11, and Al-27 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study structural and dynamic features of nanoconfined LiBH4-LiI/Al2O3. In particular, diffusion-induced H-1, Li-7, and B-11 NMR spin-lattice relaxation measurements and Li-7-pulsed field gradient (PFG) NMR experiments were used to extract activation energies and diffusion coefficients. Al-27 magic angle spinning NMR revealed surface interactions of LiBH4-LiI with pentacoordinated Al sites, and two-component H-1 NMR line shapes clearly revealed heterogeneous dynamic processes. These results show that interfacial regions have a determining influence on overall ionic transport (0.1 mS cm(-1) at 293 K). Importantly, electrical relaxation in the LiBH4-LiI regions turned out to be fully homogenous. This view is supported by Li-7 NMR results, which can be interpreted with an overall (averaged) spin ensemble subjected to uniform dipolar magnetic and quadrupolar electric interactions. Finally, broadband conductivity spectroscopy gives strong evidence for 2D ionic transport in the LiBH4-LiI bulk regions which we observed over a dynamic range of 8 orders of magnitude. Macroscopic diffusion coefficients from PFG NMR agree with those estimated from measurements of ionic conductivity and nuclear spin relaxation. The resulting 3D ionic transport in nanoconfined LiBH4-LiI/Al2O3 is characterized by an activation energy of 0.43 eV.
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