Yaping Li, Dylan McCoy, Justin Bordonaro, Jack W Simonson, Shi-Yu Liu, Sanwu Wang
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Abstract
High ionic conductivity solid-state electrolytes are essential for powerful solid-state lithium-ion batteries. With density functional theory andab initiomolecular dynamics simulations, we investigated the crystal structures of Li3YBr6and Li3LaBr6. The lowest energy configurations with uniform distribution of lithium ions were identified. Both materials have wide electrochemical stability windows (ESW): 2.64 V and 2.57 V, respectively. The experimental ESW for Li3YBr6is 2.50 V. Through extrapolating various temperature diffusion results, the conductivity of Li3YBr6was obtained at room temperature, approximately 3.9 mS cm-1, which is comparable to the experimental value 3.3 mS cm-1. Li3LaBr6has a higher conductivity, a 100% increase compared with Li3YBr6. The activation energies of Li3YBr6and Li3LaBr6through the Arrhenius plot are 0.26 eV and 0.24 eV, respectively, which is also close to the experimental value of 0.30 eV for Li3YBr6. This research explored high ionic conductivity halide materials and will contribute to developing solid-state lithium-ion batteries.
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Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter covers the whole of condensed matter physics including soft condensed matter and nanostructures. Papers may report experimental, theoretical and simulation studies. Note that papers must contain fundamental condensed matter science: papers reporting methods of materials preparation or properties of materials without novel condensed matter content will not be accepted.