Anomalous fast diffusion of Cu ions in superionic and liquid phases of CuI

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CuI is well-known to exhibit the superionic behaviour in the high temperature solid state (α-phase), where the mobile Cu ions migrate among the interstices in the f.c.c. sublattice formed by immobile I ions. Even in molten state, Cu ions has 8 times faster diffusion constant than I ions. Such asymmetric behavior between cations and anions can be caused by polarization of anions. From QENS, we distinguished three dynamical modes exist in molten phase, which are slowest diffusion of I ions, intermediate mode of Cu diffusion and fastest local dynamic mode like a rattling vibration. Deep inelastic neutron scattering by VESUVIO can allow us access directly kinetic energy of each constituent. By comparing non-superionic, superionic and liquid phases, the origin of existence of superionic phase regarded as partial melting or partial solidification can be revealed.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82353647
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82353647
Provenance
Creator Dr Kaoru Shibata; Dr Matthew Krzystyniak; Dr Takenao Shinohara; Dr Bing Li; Dr Yukinobu Kawakita
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-09-15T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-09-21T08:00:00Z