Self-diffusion in garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 solid electrolytes

Navaratnarajah Kuganathan; Michael J.D. Rushton; Robin W. Grimes; John A. Kilner; Evangelos Gkanas; Alexander Chroneos

doi:10.1038/s41598-020-79919-2

Self-diffusion in garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 solid electrolytes

Navaratnarajah Kuganathan, Michael J.D. Rushton, Robin W. Grimes, John A. Kilner, Evangelos Gkanas, Alexander Chroneos

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Tetragonal garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 is an important candidate solid electrolyte for all-solid-state lithium ion batteries because of its high ionic conductivity and large electrochemical potential window. Here we employ atomistic simulation methods to show that the most favourable disorder process in Li7La3Zr2O12 involves loss of Li2O resulting in lithium and oxygen vacancies, which promote vacancy mediated self-diffusion. The activation energy for lithium migration (0.45 eV) is much lower than that for oxygen (1.65 eV). Furthermore, the oxygen migration activation energy reveals that the oxygen diffusion in this material can be facilitated at higher temperatures once oxygen vacancies form.

Original language	English
Article number	451
Number of pages	10
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79919-2
Publication status	Published - 11 Jan 2021

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