Sr‐Doped Superionic Hydrogen Glass: Synthesis and Properties of SrH22

Semenok, Dmitrii V.;Chen, Wuhao;Huang, Xiaoli;Zhou, Di;Cui, Tian;et.al.
(2022) Advanced Materials — Vol. 34, n° 27, p. 2200924 (2022)

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  • Semenok, Dmitrii V.Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, 3 Nobel Street, 121025, Moscow, Russia
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  • Chen, WuhaoState Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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  • Huang, XiaoliState Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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  • Zhou, DiSkolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, 3 Nobel Street, 121025, Moscow, Russia
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  • Gonze, Xavierorcid-logoUCLouvain
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  • Cui, TianState Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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Abstract
Recently, several research groups announced reaching the point of metallization of hydrogen above 400 GPa. Despite notable progress, detecting superconductivity in compressed hydrogen remains an unsolved problem. Following the mainstream of extensive investigations of compressed metal polyhydrides, here small doping of molecular hydrogen by strontium is demonstrated to lead to a dramatic reduction in the metallization pressure to ≈200 GPa. Studying the high-pressure chemistry of the Sr–H system, the formation of several new phases is observed: C2/m-Sr3H13, pseudocubic SrH6, SrH9 with cubic F43m-Sr sublattice, and pseudo tetragonal superionic P1-SrH22, the metal hydride with the highest hydrogen content (96 at%) discovered so far. High diffusion coefficients of hydrogen in the latter phase DH = 0.2–2.1 × 10−9 m2 s−1 indicate an amorphous state of the H-sublattice, whereas the strontium sublattice remains solid. Unlike Ca and Y, strontium forms molecular semiconducting polyhydrides, whereas calcium and yttrium polyhydrides are high-TC superconductors with an atomic H sublattice. The discovered SrH22, a kind of hydrogen sponge, opens a new class of materials with ultrahigh content of hydrogen.
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Semenok, D. V., Chen, W., Huang, X., Zhou, D., Kruglov, I. A., Mazitov, A. B., Galasso, M., Tantardini, C., Gonze, X., Kvashnin, A. G., Oganov, A. R., & Cui, T. (2022). Sr‐Doped Superionic Hydrogen Glass: Synthesis and Properties of SrH22. Advanced Materials, 34(27), 2200924. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202200924 (Original work published 2022)