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Oxide Ion and Proton Conductivity in Highly Oxygen-Deficient Cubic Perovskite SrSc0.3Zn0.2Ga0.5O2.4

Fuller, Chloe A.; Berrod, Quentin; Frick, Bernhard; Johnson, Mark R.; Avdeev, Maxim; Evans, John S.O.; Evans, Ivana Radosavljevic

Oxide Ion and Proton Conductivity in Highly Oxygen-Deficient Cubic Perovskite SrSc0.3Zn0.2Ga0.5O2.4 Thumbnail


Authors

Chloe A. Fuller

Quentin Berrod

Bernhard Frick

Mark R. Johnson

Maxim Avdeev

Ivana Radosavljevic Evans



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Abstract

A series of Zn-substituted compounds, Sr2Sc1–xZnxGaO5–0.5x, based on the brownmillerite-type oxide ion conductor Sr2ScGaO5 have been synthesized, and a single-phase region has been identified at 0.4 ≤ x < 0.6. The structure and dynamics of Sr2Sc0.6Zn0.4GaO4.8 were investigated by X-ray and neutron diffraction, neutron total scattering and pair distribution function (PDF) analysis, impedance spectroscopy, and neutron spectroscopy. The material was found to be a highly disordered cubic perovskite with a remarkable level of oxygen deficiency across a large temperature range. These structural properties lead to an increase of oxide ion conductivity of about two orders of magnitude relative to the parent Sr2ScGaO5. The presence of proton conductivity and some water uptake was suggested by the impedance data and corroborated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), variable temperature X-ray diffraction, and neutron spectroscopy. Both proton and oxide ion conductivity produced a measurable quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) signal, and the onset of each dynamic process could be observed by monitoring the temperature dependence of the elastic and inelastic scattering intensities measured in fixed window scans. Neutron total scattering and PDF studies revealed a local structure that is markedly different from the perovskite average structure, and we propose that Sr2Sc0.6Zn0.4GaO4.8 contains a rare one-coordinate or terminal oxygen site.

Citation

Fuller, C. A., Berrod, Q., Frick, B., Johnson, M. R., Avdeev, M., Evans, J. S., & Evans, I. R. (2020). Oxide Ion and Proton Conductivity in Highly Oxygen-Deficient Cubic Perovskite SrSc0.3Zn0.2Ga0.5O2.4. Chemistry of Materials, 32(10), 4347-4357. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01378

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Apr 27, 2020
Publication Date 2020-05
Deposit Date Jun 17, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Chemistry of Materials
Print ISSN 0897-4756
Electronic ISSN 1520-5002
Publisher American Chemical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 10
Pages 4347-4357
DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01378

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