Mechanism of Proton Conduction in Solid-State Protonic Conductors: Method and Results from Investigations by QENS Techniques

Authors: Ruep E. Lechner, Götz Schuck, Klaus Langer



Journal-ref: Diffusion Fundamentals 12 (2010) 3 , PDF



Abstract:

The proton conduction mechanism in M3H(XO4)2 crystals has been employed as an example for demonstrating, how such a mechanism can be broken up into a number of different types of proton motion starting with internal and lattice vibrations at short times of the order of 10–13 s and ultimately leading to H+-diffusion on the 10–9 s to 10–8 s time-scale as required for proton conductivity.