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. 2020 May 13;124(23):12286–12294. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02551

Table 4. Calculated Diffusion Path Distances, d, and Energy Barriers for Tritium Hops between Different Interstitial Sites in a Li2TiO3 Crystal for Different Classes of Independent Local Minimum Energy Paths as Defined by Shi et al.9.

    d (Å)
barrier (eV)
diffusion class pathway present work Shi et al.9 present work Shi et al.9
C1 [Li6–Li6] 1 ↔ 1 1.77 1.68 0.49 0.33
  2 ↔ 2 1.77 1.69 0.51 0.33
  3 ↔ 3 1.98 2.04 0.73 0.55
  1 → 2 (1 ← 2) 1.68 1.58 0.46 (0.45) 0.29 (0.29)
  2 → 3 (2 ← 3) 1.82 1.73 0.60 (0.45) 0.47 (0.30)
  1 → 3 (1 ← 3) 1.86 1.80 0.62 (0.46) 0.48 (0.31)
C2 [Li6–O6] 1 → 4 (1 ← 4) 1.08 1.15 0.09 (0.01) 0.10 (0.00)
  2 → 5 (2 ← 5) 1.08 1.15 0.08 (0.02) 0.09 (0.00)
  3 → 6 (3 ← 6) 1.31 1.41 0.11 (0.16) 0.11 (0.11)
C3 [O6–Li2Ti4–O6] 6 ↔ 6 2.81 2.77 1.07 0.97
  5 ↔ 5 3.11 3.08 1.05 1.00
  4 → 5 (4 ← 5) 3.15 3.12 0.98 (0.98) 0.91 (0.92)
  4 → 6 (4 ← 6) 2.99 2.96 1.00 (0.96) 0.93 (0.86)