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. 2021 Oct 18;9:723507. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2021.723507

TABLE 5.

Activation energies for the X diffusion process in both the perfect fluorite phase ( Eac ) and the superionic states ( Eas ). The reference values are from experiments, except for those marked.

Compound Potential Eac /eV Eas /eV
This work Exp This work Ref
BaF2 Catlow and Norgett (1973) 2.90 1.6( 1), 2.52( 2) 0.61 0.48(2)
Cazorla et al. (2018) 1.32 0.95
Sayle et al. (2003) 1.30 0.73
CaF2 Bingham et al. (1989) 1.52 1.92( 3), 2.02( 1), 3.34( 2) 0.86 0.74(2)
Catlow and Norgett (1973) 2.89 0.65
Evangelakis and Pontikis (1989) 2.19 0.61
Sayle et al. (2003) 1.63 0.82
Li2O Asahi et al. (2014) 2.02 1.6( 4), 2.52( 5) 0.63 0.98 a (6)
Oda et al. (2007) 1.68 0.67
Pedone et al. (2006) 1.50 0.48
β-PbF2 Catlow and Norgett (1973) 1.95 1.04( 7) 0.81 -
SrCl2 Bendall and Catlow (1980) 1.89 4.43( 2) 0.83 0.42(2)
Gillan and Dixon (1980) 1.07 0.86
SrF2 Bingham et al. (1989) 1.80 1.81( 3) 0.79 0.55(2)
Catlow and Norgett (1973) 2.76 0.63
Cazorla et al. (2018) 2.04 0.95
UO2 Cooper et al. (2014b) 5.35 2.46–2.57( 8) 1.43
Morelon et al. (2003) 2.74 1.40