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Spatially Confined Li Diffusion in Channel-Structured LiBi3S5
B. Stanje
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Lithium Batteries, Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Materials, Graz University of Technology
15:00 - 17:00 Monday 28 September 2015 Foyer Alte Technik

The growing demand for clean and sustainable energy has created a pursuit of finding and developing new materials for the usage in energy storing devices especially for Li ion batteries. While usually the electrochemical properties of potential and novel candidates are extensively evaluated, only few experimental studies take up the challenge to describe the underlying Li diffusion mechanisms in detail from an atomic scale point of view. Here, we used complementary 7Li NMR techniques as well as conductivity spectroscopy to study the self-diffusion behavior of Li ion in the channel-structured LiBi3S5, being a novel sulfide.
The two distinct Li positions in the LiBi3S5, which is a so-called mixed conductor, were successfully revealed by using 6Li MAS NMR spectroscopy. 7Li spin-lattice relaxation measurements in the laboratory frame of reference revealed an activation energy of 0.44 eV for short range Li ion hopping. This is in agreement with measurements in the rotating frame of reference. Conductivity measurements complement the study presented.