Understanding the effect of lattice polarisability on the electrochemical properties of lithium tetrahaloaluminates, LiAlX<sub>4</sub> (X = Cl, Br, I)
Nicolás Flores-González, Martí López, Nicolò Minafra, Jan Bohnenberger, Francesc Viñes, Svemir Rudić, Ingo Krossing, Wolfgang G. Zeier, Francesc Illas, Duncan H. Gregory
Abstract
Lithium ion conductivity in haloaluminate solid electrolytes can be tuned by the softening of the anion sublattice via a judicious juggling of the migration activation energy, E a and the Meyer–Neldel energy, Δ 0 .
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