Structure and ionic conductivity of well-aligned polycrystalline sodium titanogallate grown by reactive diffusion
Structure and ionic conductivity of well-aligned polycrystalline sodium titanogallate grown by reactive diffusion
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jssc.2015.06.005
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发表时间:
2015-09-01
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3.3
通讯作者:
Fukuda, Koichiro
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作者:
Hasegawa, Ryo;Okabe, Momoko;Fukuda, Koichiro
We prepared the b-axis-oriented polycrystalline Na0.8Ti0.51Ga4.37O8 (NTGO) embedded in Ga2O3-doped Na2Ti4O9 matrix using the reactive diffusion technique. When the sandwich-type Ga2TiO5/NaGaO2/Ga2TiO5 diffusion couple was heated at 1323 K for 24 h, the NTGO polycrystal was readily formed in the presence of a liquid phase. The resulting polycrystalline material was characterized by X-ray diffractometry, electron microscopy and impedance spectroscopy. We mechanically processed the annealed diffusion couple and obtained the thin-plate electrolyte consisting mostly of the grain-aligned NTGO polycrystal. The ionic conductivity (sigma) of the electrolyte along the common b-axis direction steadily increased from 13 x 10(-4) to 7.3 x 10(-3) S/cm as the temperature increased from 573 to 1073 K. There was a slope change at ca. 792 K for the Arrhenius plot of sigma; the activation energies were 0.39 eV above this temperature and 0.57 eV below it. The NTGO showed the crystal structure (space group C2/m) with substantial positional disordering of one of the two Ga sites. The Na+ ions occupied ca. 43% of the Wyckoff position 4i site, the deficiency of which would contribute to the relatively high ionic conductivity along the b-axis. The reactive diffusion could be widely applicable as the novel technique to the preparation of grain-aligned ceramics of multi-component systems. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.