Data from: Solid-state hydroxide ion conductivity in silver(I) oxide, Ag2O
Data files
Apr 01, 2026 version files 122.74 MB
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ag2o-dryad.zip
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README.md
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Abstract
Silver(I) oxide, Ag2O, precipitated as microcrystals by combining aqueous silver(I) nitrate and KOH solutions, was found to be a solid-state hydroxide ion conductor with ionic conductivity on the order of 10–3 S/cm. The proton chemical shifts at 4.87 and −7.35 ppm measured by solid-state 1H NMR experiments are attributed to water molecules and in-lattice OH– coordinated to silver, respectively. The lack of spinning sidebands around the 4.87 ppm peak indicates rapid reorientation on the NMR time scale, suggesting that the water molecules are adsorbed to the surface of the Ag2O crystals. Pulsed field gradient measurements gave similar diffusion coefficients (2 × 10–7 cm2/s at 298 K) for all three proton environments, indicating chemical exchange between sites on the millisecond time scale. The activation energy for OH– diffusion measured by NMR (0.18 eV) was comparable to that obtained by conductivity measurements and density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure calculations. The calculated Pourbaix diagram of Ag2O is consistent with the slightly lower sample density observed in He pycnometry and thermogravimetric measurements. The dataset here contains the theoretical calculations of this study to support the experimental results, including electronic band structure calculation, geometry relaxation, NMR calculations, and ion-migration calculations.
This dataset contains the results of calculations from this project, and experimental results can be readily found in the paper and supporting information. Cite this work at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c02082
Description of the data and file structure
Naming convention: In each folder, 2x2x2 represents the size of the supercell, H or OH is the species included in the Ag2O lattice, ads and sub represent addition and substitution, respectively.
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/electronic-structurescontains electronic band structure, charge density, and density of states calculations for the optimized structures -
/ion-migration containsthe NEB calculation for the possible ion migration routes. -
/nmrcontains the NMR calculation by Quantum Espresso of H species in Ag2O. -
/relaxed-structurescontains relaxed structures from first-principles calculations by Quantum Espresso. -
/pseudoscontains the pseudopotentials that were used for this project: norm-conserving, srl, generated by opium, including Ag, H, and O elements.
Code/Software
First-principles calculation software: Quantum Espresso and VASP.
