Proton diffusion in lithium imide: a quasi-elastic neutron scattering study

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Li_2NH has been recently considered for H_2 storage applications. However, its low-T crystal structure is still controversial, with at least 6 options compatible with the diffraction findings. Few months ago we have performed IINS measurements on Li_2NH in order to provide complementary information on the H vibrational dynamics and to shed more light (together with appropriate ab-initio simulations) on the elusive Li_2NH structure. Our data analysis has pointed out large differences in the H-projected phonon densities states derived from forward and back-scattering TOSCA detectors. This anomaly has been interpreted as a clear effect of a fast H jump diffusion behaviour, smearing out the lattice vibrational excitations in an angle-dependent way. For this reason, we propose to measure the quasi-elastic neutron spectra of Li_2NH in its low T phase at 9 different temperatures (4 K<T<300 K).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079295
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079295
Provenance
Creator Professor Michele Catti; Dr Antonino Pietropaolo; Dr Daniele Colognesi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-08-10T08:02:49Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-01-31T10:43:09Z