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Thermal conductivity of Li 3 PS 4 solid electrolytes with ab initio accuracy

Tisi, Davide  
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Grasselli, Federico  
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Gigli, Lorenzo  
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June 12, 2024
Physical Review Materials

The vast amount of computational studies on electrical conduction in solid-state electrolytes is not mirrored by comparable efforts addressing thermal conduction, which has been scarcely investigated despite its relevance to thermal management and (over)heating of batteries. The reason for this lies in the complexity of the calculations: on one hand, the diffusion of ionic charge carriers makes lattice methods formally unsuitable, due to the lack of equilibrium atomic positions needed for normal -mode expansion. On the other hand, the prohibitive cost of large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of heat transport in large systems at ab initio levels has hindered the use of MD -based methods. In this paper, we leverage recently developed machine -learning potentials targeting different ab initio functionals (PBEsol, r 2 SCAN, PBE0) and a state-ofthe-art formulation of the Green-Kubo theory of heat transport in multicomponent systems to compute the thermal conductivity of a promising solid-state electrolyte, Li 3 PS 4 , in all its polymorphs ( alpha , 0 , and gamma ). By comparing MD estimates with lattice methods on the low -temperature, nondiffusive gamma - Li 3 PS 4 , we highlight strong anharmonicities and negligible nuclear quantum effects, hence further justifying MD -based methods even for nondiffusive phases. Finally, for the ion -conducting alpha and 0 phases, where the multicomponent Green-Kubo MD approach is mandatory, our simulations indicate a weak temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity, a glass -like behavior due to the effective local disorder characterizing these Li -diffusing phases.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.065403
Web of Science ID

WOS:001247539800001

Author(s)
Tisi, Davide  
Grasselli, Federico  
Gigli, Lorenzo  
Ceriotti, Michele  
Date Issued

2024-06-12

Publisher

Amer Physical Soc

Published in
Physical Review Materials
Volume

8

Issue

6

Article Number

065403

Subjects

Technology

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Molecular-Dynamics

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Irreversible-Processes

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State Electrolytes

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Debye Temperature

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Heat-Transport

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Crystalline

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Principles

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Invariance

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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COSMO  
FunderGrant Number

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

CRSII5_202296

MARVEL National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR)

European Research Council (ERC)

101001890-FIAMMA

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