Nature of structural disorder in proton conducting In-doped BaZrO3

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This proposal requests three days on the Polaris diffractometer to investigate the nature of local structure in the well known proton conducting perovskite system BaInxZr1-xO3-x/2 (x = 0-0.75, hydrated samples). Recent Raman spectroscopy results indicate the presence of pronounced short-range (local) structural distortions of the long-range (average) cubic structure, which are induced by the In doping and which increase in strength with increasing In concentration. The Raman data also suggests a "threshold" composition in the range x = 0.10-0.25, which correlates to a jump in proton mobility. However, the mechanistic features (such as bond angles and distances, symmetry, oxygen and/or cation ordering) of the local structure and compositional "threshold" are not yet known. To obtain this information will shall perform reverse Monte Carlo modeling of neutron total scattering data.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088887
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088887
Provenance
Creator Dr Steve Hull; Professor Sten Eriksson; Dr Stefan Norberg; Dr Maths Karlsson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-06-08T12:09:34Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-10-23T10:55:39Z