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Crystals
A First-Principles Exploration of NaxSy Binary Phases at 1 atm and Under Pressure
Niloofar Zarifi1  Eva Zurek1  Yan Yan1  Nisha Geng1  Tiange Bi1 
[1] Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA;
关键词: high-pressure;    crystal structure prediction;    electronic structure;    battery materials;    superconductivity;   
DOI  :  10.3390/cryst9090441
来源: DOAJ
【 摘 要 】

Interest in Na-S compounds stems from their use in battery materials at 1 atm, as well as the potential for superconductivity under pressure. Evolutionary structure searches coupled with Density Functional Theory calculations were employed to predict stable and low-lying metastable phases of sodium poor and sodium rich sulfides at 1 atm and within 100−200 GPa. At ambient pressures, four new stable or metastable phases with unbranched sulfur motifs were predicted: Na2S3 with C 2 / c and Imm2 symmetry, C 2 -Na2S5 and C 2 -Na2S8. Van der Waals interactions were shown to affect the energy ordering of various polymorphs. At high pressure, several novel phases that contained a wide variety of zero-, one-, and two-dimensional sulfur motifs were predicted, and their electronic structures and bonding were analyzed. At 200 GPa, P 4 / m m m -Na2S8 was predicted to become superconducting below 15.5 K, which is close to results previously obtained for the β -Po phase of elemental sulfur. The structures of the most stable M3S and M4S, M = Na, phases differed from those previously reported for compounds with M = H, Li, K.

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