Potassium cation storage and diffusion in SnS, SnS ₂ , and at SnS/SnS ₂ interfaces

2025/01/01 by Christoph Kirsch, Daniel Sebastiani, Pouya Partovi‐Azar · 1 voice
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · Chemistry · #Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films #Semiconductor materials and interfaces #Electrochemical Analysis and Applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d5ma00230c

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02

Abstract

Computational modelling revealed that bulk SnS exhibits faster K + diffusion, while bulk SnS 2 offers more thermodynamically favourable K + storage. In SnS/SnS 2 heterostructures, K + migration perpendicular to the interface is the slowest process.

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