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Energetic Ion Irradiation-Induced Disordered Nanochannels for Fast Ion Conduction

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Atomically disordered oxides are seen as suitable candidate for fast oxygen conduction due to their remarkable enhancement in oxygen diffusivity compared with ordered oxides. In particular, disordered derivatives of pyrochlore-structured oxides (A2B2O7) are seen as an interesting prospect due to the intrinsic existence of oxygen vacancies in their lattice. Using energetic ion irradiation, we demonstrated fabrication of structurally disordered nanoscale channels in A2B2O7 (A = Gd, Yb; B = Ti, Zr) that act as selective pathways for fast oxygen conduction. Atomic-level characterization revealed that the amorphous core and surrounding defect-fluorite phase in the nanochannels exhibited distorted and differently coordinated Ti-O polyhedra, with very similar electronic structure. The formation of defect-fluorite structure is facilitated by a decrease in the difference between the ionic radii of A- and B-site cations in the lattice.

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Acknowledgements

R.S. acknowledges the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), USA, for the award of an NRC research fellowship. This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering Division under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. We acknowledge that the 55-MeV I ion irradiation was performed at the Ion Beam Center of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

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  1. Materials Science Division, Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA

    Ritesh Sachan

  2. Material Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA

    Matthew F. Chisholm, Yanwen Zhang & William J. Weber

  3. State Key Laboratory of Functional Material for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China

    Xin Ou

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Yanwen Zhang & William J. Weber

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Sachan, R., Chisholm, M.F., Ou, X. et al. Energetic Ion Irradiation-Induced Disordered Nanochannels for Fast Ion Conduction. JOM 71, 103–108 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-018-3171-y

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