Determination of Local Lithium Environment in Fast Ion Conducting Garnets by PDF Analysis

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We propose to use two days of beamtime on POLARIS to carry out the first analysis of the Pair Distribution Function of lithium-conducting garnets. These materials show outstanding Li+ conductivity and electrochemical stability making them strong candidates for operation as electrolytes in an all solid-state battery. Rietveld analysis combined with solid state NMR, computer simulation and electrochemical measurements have identified Li+ distributed across multiple sites in the structure with a large degree of occupational disorder. The correlation between the occupancies of these sites can only be determined by neutron PDF and is crucial in understanding whether the Li+ conduction mechanism involves isolated Li+ ions or the formation of local clusters throughout the material.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089918
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089918
Provenance
Creator Professor Serena Cussen; Professor Eddie Cussen
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 2012-12-03T09:30:10Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-12-06T09:42:16Z