Design Principles for Sodium Superionic Conductors

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Nov 22

PMID 37993459

Authors

Shuo Wang

Jiamin Fu

Yunsheng Liu

Ramanuja Srinivasan Saravanan

Jing Luo

Sixu Deng

Tsun-Kong Sham

Xueliang Sun

Yifei Mo

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Abstract

Motivated by the high-performance solid-state lithium batteries enabled by lithium superionic conductors, sodium superionic conductor materials have great potential to empower sodium batteries with high energy, low cost, and sustainability. A critical challenge lies in designing and discovering sodium superionic conductors with high ionic conductivities to enable the development of solid-state sodium batteries. Here, by studying the structures and diffusion mechanisms of Li-ion versus Na-ion conducting solids, we reveal the structural feature of face-sharing high-coordination sites for fast sodium-ion conductors. By applying this feature as a design principle, we discover a number of Na-ion conductors in oxides, sulfides, and halides. Notably, we discover a chloride-based family of Na-ion conductors NaMCl (M = La-Sm) with UCl-type structure and experimentally validate with the highest reported ionic conductivity. Our findings not only pave the way for the future development of sodium-ion conductors for sodium batteries, but also consolidate design principles of fast ion-conducting materials for a variety of energy applications.

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