Exceptional superionic conductivity in disordered sodium decahydro-closo-decaborate.

Udovic, Terrence J; Matsuo, Motoaki; Tang, Wan Si; Wu, Hui; Stavila, Vitalie; Soloninin, Alexei V; Skoryunov, Roman V; Babanova, Olga A et al. · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Na2 B10 H10 exhibits exceptional superionic conductivity above ca. 360 K (e.g., ca. 0.01 S cm(-1) at 383 K) concomitant with its transition from an ordered monoclinic structure to a face-centered-cubic arrangement of orientationally disordered B10 H10 (2-) anions harboring a vacancy-rich Na(+) cation sublattice. This discovery represents a major advancement for solid-state Na(+) fast-ion conduction at technologically relevant device temperatures.