Molecular diffusion and dc conductivity perfectly correlated with molecular rotational dynamics in a plastic crystalline electrolyte

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出版日 2015-05-20

DOI 10.1039/C5CP02345A

インパクトファクター 3.676

著者

M. Zachariah, M. Romanini, P. Tripathi, J. Ll. Tamarit, R. Macovez

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要旨

We probe the ionic conduction and the molecular dynamics in a pure and lithium-salt doped dinitrile molecular plastic crystal. While the diffusion of the Li+ ions is decoupled from the molecular reorientational dynamics, in the undoped plastic crystal the temperature dependence of the mobility of dinitrile ions and thus of the conductivity is virtually identical to that of on-site molecular rotations. The undoped material is found to obey the Walden and Stokes–Einstein rules typical of ideal liquid electrolytes, implying that an effective viscosity against diffusion can be defined even for a plastic crystalline phase. These surprising results, never reported before in a translationally ordered solid, indicate that in this dinitrile plastic crystalline material the timescale of translational diffusion is perfectly correlated with that of the purely reorientational on-site dynamics.

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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

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