Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Low dimensional nanostructures of fast ion conducting lithium nitride

  • Nuria Tapia-Ruiz,
  • Alexandra G. Gordon,
  • Catherine M. Jewell,
  • Hannah K. Edwards,
  • Charles W. Dunnill,
  • James M. Blackman,
  • Colin P. Snape,
  • Paul D. Brown,
  • Ian MacLaren,
  • Matteo Baldoni,
  • Elena Besley,
  • Jeremy J. Titman,
  • Duncan H. Gregory

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17951-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Lithium nitride is the only stable binary alkali metal-nitrogen compound and shows promise for energy applications involving the transport of lithium ions. Here, the authors demonstrate that lithium nitride nanostructures can be grown as fibres and sheets despite the absence of a van der Waals gap.