Fig. 6: Bulk ionic conductivities, activation energies, and prefactors calculated by AIMD.

Calculated room-temperature (300 K) bulk ionic conductivities (a) and activation energies (d) with error bars77, and prefactors (g) of Na1+2yHf2−yMgyP3O12 (y = 0, 0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.5, labeled blue) and Na2+2zHf2−zMgzSiP2O12 (z = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1, labeled yellow). In these two groups, both the polyanion composition and cation radius are kept constant. Note that for compounds with y = 0, 1.5 and z = 1, the conductivities were not converged and therefore set as « 10−9 mS cm−1. b, e, h Group of Na3MM’Si2PO12 (M, M’ = Ti, Hf, Sn, Zr), with constant Na content x and polyanion composition. c, f, i Group of Na3Hf2−zMgzSi2−2zP1+2zO12 (z = 0, 0.5, 1) where \({\bar{r}}_{M}\) and the Na content x are kept constant. The error bars quantifying the statistical confidence levels of diffusion results from AIMD are calculated according to He et al. 77.