Oxygen diffusion in ceria doped with rare-earth elements

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出版日 2017-05-12

DOI 10.1039/C6CP06460D

インパクトファクター 3.676

著者

Johan O. Nilsson, Mikael Leetmaa, Sergei I. Simak

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要旨

We examine the effects of the dopant type and the dopant distribution on the ion diffusion in ceria doped with rare-earth elements (Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, and Gd). Diffusion is simulated by means of a Kinetic Monte Carlo method using input transition rates derived from diffusion barriers calculated in the framework of density functional theory (DFT). Based on diffusion simulations, we discuss the characteristics of the dopants in terms of the diffusion barriers, and study oxygen ion trajectories for different dopants and distributions. Our simulations show a trend of increasing ion diffusivity with increasing atomic number for all distributions.

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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

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