LiTa2PO8: a fast lithium-ion conductor with new framework structure
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2018-10-29
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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A new lithium-ion conducting oxide, LiTa2PO8, with a three-dimensional (3D) framework structure was synthesized. The complementary use of synchrotron XRD and neutron diffraction revealed that LiTa2PO8 crystallized into a monoclinic system (space group C2/c) with lattice parameters a ≈ 9.716 Å, b ≈ 11.536 Å, c ≈ 10.697 Å, and β = 90.04°. In this structure, the TaO6 octahedra and PO4 tetrahedra are connected via corner-sharing to form an unprecedented anionic framework, [(TaO6/2)2(PO4/2)]−, providing a 3D pathway for lithium-ion conduction. The sintered LiTa2PO8 pellets exhibited excellent lithium-ion conductivities: bulk conductivity of 1.6 × 10−3 S cm−1 and total conductivity of 2.5 × 10−4 S cm−1 at 25 °C. © Royal Society of Chemistry
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Oxides, Neutron diffraction, Lithium ions, X-ray diffraction, Monoclinic lattices, Anions
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Kim, J., Kim, J., Avdeev, M., Yun, H., & Kim, S. J. (2018). LiTa2PO8: a fast lithium-ion conductor with new framework structure. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(45), 22478-22482. doi:10.1039/C8TA09170F