Ion correlation and negative lithium transference in polyelectrolyte solutions.

ABSTRACT: Polyelectrolyte solutions (PESs) recently have been proposed as high conductivity, high lithium transference number (t₊) electrolytes where the majority of the ionic current is carried by the electrochemically active Li-ion. While PESs are intuitively appealing because anchoring the anion to a polymer backbone selectively slows down anionic motion and therefore increases t₊, increasing the anion charge will act as a competing effect, decreasing t₊. In this work we directly measure ion mobilities in a model non-aqueous polyelectrolyte solution using electrophoretic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (eNMR) to probe these competing effects. While previous studies that rely on ideal assumptions predict that PESs will have higher t<

SUBMITTER: Bergstrom HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10283486 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature