Diffusion pathways of sodium ions in Sodium Cobaltate via Fourier density maps

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Sodium Cobaltate is in the same family of compounds as the battery material Lithium Cobaltate, and the fact that sodium is more abundant than lithium makes it an attractive alternative. NMR measurements have shown that the sodium ions are mobile at high temperature, and a recent study using novel neutron powder diffraction techniques has detected diffusing sodium ions away from their regular sites via Fourier density maps. Here we propose to extend this approach to single crystals, allowing us to study the effect in relation to the superstructure of the material and, therefore, allowing us to understand the diffusion pathways. Single crystal neutron diffraction measurements will be performed at a range of temperatures allowing us to visualise the onset of diffusion and its relation to the superstructure.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.49916989
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/49916989
Provenance
Creator Mr Toby Willis; Dr Dan Porter; Professor Jon Goff; Dr Uthayakumar Sivaperumal
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
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 Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-06-03T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-08T23:00:00Z