Nonstoichiometry and Li-ion transport in lithium zirconate: The role of oxygen vacancies

Xiaowen Zhan; Yang Tse Cheng; Mona Shirpour

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Nonstoichiometry and Li-ion transport in lithium zirconate: The role of oxygen vacancies

Xiaowen Zhan, Yang Tse Cheng, Mona Shirpour

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Abstract

Understanding Li-ion migration mechanisms and enhancing Li-ion transport in Li₂ZrO₃ (LZO) is important to its role as solid absorbent for reversible CO₂ capture at elevated temperatures, as ceramic breeder in nuclear reactors, and as electrode coating in high-voltage lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Although defect engineering is an effective way to tune the properties of ceramics, the defect structure of LZO is largely unknown. This study reports the defect structure and electrical properties of undoped LZO and a series of cation-doped LZOs: (i) depending on their charge states, cation dopants can control the oxygen vacancy concentration in doped LZOs; (ii) the doped LZOs with higher oxygen vacancy concentrations exhibit better Li⁺ conductivity, and consequently faster high-temperature CO₂ absorption. In fact, the Fe (II)-doped LZO shows the highest Li-ion conductivity reported for LZOs, reaching 3.3 mS/cm at ~300°C that is more than 1 order of magnitude higher than that of the undoped LZO.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4053-4065
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume	101
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.15583
State	Published - Sep 2018

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Funding Information:
Use of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory was supported by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The authors would like to acknowledge the support from US National Science Foundation Award 1355438 (Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy for a Sustainable Future). Xiaowen Zhan and Mona Shirpour thank the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky for its financial support of this work. The authors also thank Long Zhang and Shuang Gao at the University of Kentucky for assisting with XPS and SEM experiments.

Funding Information:
U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Grant/Award Number: DE-AC02-06CH11357; US National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 1355438

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The American Ceramic Society

Keywords

dopants/doping
electrical properties
lithium-ion transport
nonstoichiometry
oxygen vacancies

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Materials Chemistry

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Nonstoichiometry and Li-ion transport in lithium zirconate: The role of oxygen vacancies

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