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Title: Dynamic Lone Pairs and Fluoride-Ion Disorder in Cubic-BaSnF 4

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c08232· OSTI ID:2202498
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  1. Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l’Energie, RS2E, FR CNRS 3459, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Physicochimie des Electrolytes et Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux, UMR CNRS 8234, 75005 Paris, France, Laboratoire de Réactivité et de Chimie du Solides, UMR CNRS 7314, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France
  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom, Quad One, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, The Faraday Institution, Didcot OX11 0RA, United Kingdom
  3. Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5026, 33608 Pessac, France
  4. Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, UMR CNRS 6283, Le Mans Université, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
  5. X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
  6. Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Sciences des Matériaux, CRISMAT, 14000 Caen, France
  7. Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l’Energie, RS2E, FR CNRS 3459, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Réactivité et de Chimie du Solides, UMR CNRS 7314, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France
  8. Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l’Energie, RS2E, FR CNRS 3459, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Physicochimie des Electrolytes et Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux, UMR CNRS 8234, 75005 Paris, France

Introducing compositional or structural disorder within crystalline solid electrolytes is a common strategy for increasing their ionic conductivity. (M,Sn)F2 fluorites have previously been proposed to exhibit two forms of disorder within their cationic host frameworks: occupational disorder from randomly distributed M and Sn cations and orientational disorder from Sn(II) stereoactive lone pairs. Here, we characterize the structure and fluoride-ion dynamics of cubic BaSnF4, using a combination of experimental and computational techniques. Rietveld refinement of the X-ray diffraction (XRD) data confirms an average fluorite structure with {Ba,Sn} cation disorder, and the 119Sn Mössbauer spectrum demonstrates the presence of stereoactive Sn(II) lone pairs. X-ray total-scattering PDF analysis and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations reveal a complex local structure with a high degree of intrinsic fluoride-ion disorder, where 1/3 of fluoride ions occupy octahedral “interstitial” sites: this fluoride-ion disorder is a consequence of repulsion between Sn lone pairs and fluoride ions that destabilizes Sn-coordinated tetrahedral fluoride-ion sites. Variable-temperature 19F NMR experiments and analysis of our molecular dynamics simulations reveal highly inhomogeneous fluoride-ion dynamics, with fluoride ions in Sn-rich local environments significantly more mobile than those in Ba-rich environments. Our simulations also reveal dynamical reorientation of the Sn lone pairs that is biased by the local cation configuration and coupled to the local fluoride-ion dynamics. We end by discussing the effect of host-framework disorder on long-range diffusion pathways in cubic BaSnF4.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
2202498
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2204339
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal Name: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 145 Journal Issue: 43; ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher:
American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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