How muons see the motion of negative hydrogen ions in solids

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Ions are often diffusing in solids. Among many ions, H+, Li+, Na+, O2-, and F- are known to become mobile at high temperatures in solids and they are used for fuel cells and batteries. Very recently, hydride ions (H-) are found to diffuse in inorganic oxyhydride compounds, i.e. LaSrLiH2O2 and related materials. Macroscopic transport measurements provide the evidence of H- diffusion, but the mechanism of such diffusion is still not clarified. Muon spin relaxation (muSR) has a unique feature for detecting ion-diffusion in solids. In particular, the presence of both H- and O2- ions in the lattice suggests that the implanted muons are stable even at high temperatures, based on the past muSR experiments oh MgH2. Therefore, muSR will provide microscopic information in the target materials through the change in local magnetic environments induced by H- diffusion.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.83551539
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/83551539
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Creator Professor Yasmine Sassa; Dr Hiroshi Nozaki; Dr Yuki Higuchi; Dr Ola Kenji Forslund; Professor Martin Mansson; Dr Fanni Juranyi; Dr Genki Kobayashi; Mr Peter Benedek; Dr Fiona Coomer; Dr Jun Sugiyama; Dr Izumi Umegaki
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-12-05T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-12-09T09:30:00Z