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ArticleNature communications2023

What dictates soft clay-like lithium superionic conductor formation from rigid salts mixture.

Sunny Gupta, Xiaochen Yang, Gerbrand Ceder

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Mechanism of Contrasting Ionic Conductivities in LiSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sunny GuptaDepartment of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5763-6411
Xiaochen YangDepartment of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Gerbrand CederDepartment of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA. gceder@berkeley.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9275-3605
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · US

Funding

DOE | Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy | Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) DE-AC02-05CH11231
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft clay-like Li-superionic conductors, integral to realizing all-solid-state batteries, have been recently synthesized by mixing rigid-salts. Here, through computational and experimental analysis, we clarify how a soft clay-like material can be created from a mixture of rigid-salts. Using molecular dynamics simulations with a deep learning-based interatomic potential energy model, we uncover the microscopic features responsible for soft clay-formation from ionic solid mixtures. We find that salt mixtures capable of forming molecular solid units on anion exchange, along with the slow kinetics of such reactions, are key to soft-clay formation. Molecular solid units serve as sites for shear transformation zones, and their inherent softness enables plasticity at low stress. Extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy confirms the formation of molecular solid units. A general strategy for creating soft clay-like materials from ionic solid mixtures is formulated.

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PMID37898616
PMCPMC10613223
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