We present the observation of glasslike dynamic correlations of mobile mercury ions in the ionic conductor Cu2HgI4, detected in both NMR and nonlinear conductivity experiments. The results show that dynamic cooperativity appears in systems seemingly unrelated to glassy and soft arrested materials. A simple kinetic two-component model is proposed, which seems to provide a good description of the cooperative ionic dynamics.
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ACS Nano
January 2025
Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea.
We present a strategy for enhancing Li conduction in block copolymer electrolytes by introducing trace amounts of Li salts into polystyrene--poly(ethylene oxide) (PS--PEO), wherein Li ions preferentially coordinate with the -OH end groups of the PEO chains, resulting in the formation of double primitive cubic (3̅) structures. Compared with TFSI anions in Li salts, smaller anions (PF and BF) could facilitate ion localization more effectively, expanding the salt concentration range for developing stable 3̅ structures. The 3̅ structures formed in PS--PEOs doped with LiBF at = 0.
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January 2025
Southern University of Science and Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, CHINA.
The last decade has witnessed significant progress in organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) due to their enormous potential applications in various bioelectronic devices, such as artificial synapses, biological interfaces, and biosensors. The remarkable advance achieved in this filed is highly powered by the development of novel organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs). Among these, π-conjugated polymers (CPs), which are widely used in various optoelectronics, are emerging as key channel materials for OECTs.
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School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Lab of Silicon and Advanced, Semiconductor Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China. Electronic address:
NaMnTi(PO) is a promising sodium-ion cathode material due to its relatively high specific capacity, excellent thermodynamic stability and low cost. However, unfavorable electron conductivity and slow kinetics limit its practical application. Here, a strategy of hetero and multivalent anion substitution is proposed to achieve high-rate performance and good capacity retention.
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Department of Advanced Materials for Energy Applications, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Jardins de les Dones de Negre 1, Sant Adrià del Besòs, Barcelona, 08930, Spain.
Functional properties of mixed ionic electronic conductors (MIECs) can be radically modified by (de)insertion of mobile charged defects. A complete control of this dynamic behavior has multiple applications in a myriad of fields including advanced computing, data processing, sensing or energy conversion. However, the effect of different MIEC's state-of-charge is not fully understood yet and there is a lack of strategies for fully controlling the defect content in a material.
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December 2024
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States.
Solid polymer electrolytes have yet to achieve the desired ionic conductivity (>1 mS/cm) near room temperature required for many applications. This target implies the need to reduce the effective energy barriers for ion transport in polymer electrolytes to around 20 kJ/mol. In this work, we combine information extracted from existing experimental results with theoretical calculations to provide insights into ion transport in single-ion conductors (SICs) with a focus on lithium ion SICs.
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