Investigating the Factors Affecting the Ionic Conduction in Nanoconfined NaBH4
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HERC and MERLin, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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NMR Facility, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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Inorganics 2021, 9(1), 2; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/inorganics9010002
Received: 28 November 2020 / Revised: 22 December 2020 / Accepted: 23 December 2020 / Published: 1 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry)
Nanoconfinement is an effective strategy to tune the properties of the metal hydrides. It has been extensively employed to modify the ionic conductivity of LiBH4 as an electrolyte for Li-ion batteries. However, the approach does not seem to be applicable to other borohydrides such as NaBH4, which is found to reach a limited improvement in ionic conductivity of 10−7 S cm−1 at 115 °C upon nanoconfinement in Mobil Composition of Matter No. 41 (MCM-41) instead of 10−8 S cm−1. In comparison, introducing large cage anions in the form of Na2B12H12 naturally formed upon the nanoconfinement of NaBH4 was found to be more effective in leading to higher ionic conductivities of 10−4 S cm−1 at 110 °C.
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Luo, X.; Rawal, A.; Aguey-Zinsou, K.-F. Investigating the Factors Affecting the Ionic Conduction in Nanoconfined NaBH4. Inorganics 2021, 9, 2. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/inorganics9010002
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Luo X, Rawal A, Aguey-Zinsou K-F. Investigating the Factors Affecting the Ionic Conduction in Nanoconfined NaBH4. Inorganics. 2021; 9(1):2. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/inorganics9010002
Chicago/Turabian StyleLuo, Xiaoxuan; Rawal, Aditya; Aguey-Zinsou, Kondo-Francois. 2021. "Investigating the Factors Affecting the Ionic Conduction in Nanoconfined NaBH4" Inorganics 9, no. 1: 2. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/inorganics9010002
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