Probing Cation and Vacancy Ordering in the Dry and Hydrated Yttrium-Substituted BaSnO3 Perovskite by NMR Spectroscopy and First Principles Calculations: Implications for Proton Mobility
- 13 June 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 134 (35), 14483-14498
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja304712v
Abstract
Hydrated BaSn1–xYxO3–x/2 is a protonic conductor that, unlike many other related perovskites, shows high conductivity even at high substitution levels. A joint multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and density functional theory (total energy and GIPAW NMR calculations) investigation of BaSn1–xYxO3–x/2 (0.10 ≤ x ≤ 0.50) was performed to investigate cation ordering and the location of the oxygen vacancies in the dry material. The DFT energetics show that Y doping on the Sn site is favored over doping on the Ba site. The 119Sn chemical shifts are sensitive to the number of neighboring Sn and Y cations, an experimental observation that is supported by the GIPAW calculations and that allows clustering to be monitored: Y substitution on the Sn sublattice is close to random up to x = 0.20, while at higher substitution levels, Y–O–Y linkages are avoided, leading, at x = 0.50, to strict Y–O–Sn alternation of B-site cations. These results are confirmed by the absence of a “Y–O–Y” 17O resonance and supported by the 17O NMR shift calculations. Although resonances due to six-coordinate Y cations were observed by 89Y NMR, the agreement between the experimental and calculated shifts was poor. Five-coordinate Sn and Y sites (i.e., sites next to the vacancy) were observed by 119Sn and 89Y NMR, respectively, these sites disappearing on hydration. More five-coordinated Sn than five-coordinated Y sites are seen, even at x = 0.50, which is ascribed to the presence of residual Sn–O–Sn defects in the cation-ordered material and their ability to accommodate O vacancies. High-temperature 119Sn NMR reveals that the O ions are mobile above 400 °C, oxygen mobility being required to hydrate these materials. The high protonic mobility, even in the high Y-content materials, is ascribed to the Y–O–Sn cation ordering, which prevents proton trapping on the more basic Y–O–Y sites.This publication has 48 references indexed in Scilit:
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