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Research Article | Open Access

Combining cold sintering and Bi2O3-Activated liquid-phase sintering to fabricate high-conductivity Mg-doped NASICON at reduced temperatures

Haoyang Leng,, Jiuyuan Nie, Jian Luo( )
Department of NanoEngineering, Program of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0448, USA

Peer review under responsibility of The Chinese Ceramic Society.

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The cold sintering process (CSP) and Bi2O3-activated liquid-phase sintering (LPS) are combined to densify Mg-doped NASICON (Na3.256Mg0.128Zr1.872Si2PO12) to achieve high densities and conductivities at reduced temperatures. As an example, a cold-sintered specimen with the addition of 1.1 wt % Bi2O3 sintering additive achieved a high conductivity of 0.91 mS/cm (with ~96% relative density) after annealing at 1000 ℃; this conductivity is > 70% higher than that of a cold-sintered specimen without adding the Bi2O3 sintering additive, and it is > 700% of the conductivity of a dry-pressed counterpart with the same amount of Bi2O3 added, all of which are subjected to the same heating profile. The highest conductivity achieved in this study via combining CSP and Bi2O3-activated LSP is > 1.5 mS/cm. This study suggests an opportunity to combine the new CSP with the traditional LPS to sinter solid electrolytes to achieve high densities and conductivities at reduced temperatures. This combined CSP-LPS approach can be extended to a broad range of other materials to fabricate the "thermally fragile" solid electrolytes or solid-state battery systems, where reducing the processing temperature is often desirable.

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NASICONSolid electrolytesLiquid-phase sinteringCold sintering processSolid-state sodium-ion battery

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Journal of Materiomics
Volume 5 Issue 2,
June 2019
Pages 237-246
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2019.02.005
Cite this article:
Leng H, Nie J, Luo J. Combining cold sintering and Bi2O3-Activated liquid-phase sintering to fabricate high-conductivity Mg-doped NASICON at reduced temperatures. Journal of Materiomics, 2019, 5(2): 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2019.02.005

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Received: 29 December 2018
Revised: 04 February 2019
Accepted: 12 February 2019
Published: 13 February 2019
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