Cation-Assisted Lithium-Ion Transport for High-Performance PEO-based Ternary Solid Polymer Electrolytes.

ABSTRACT: N-alkyl-N-alkyl pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquids (ILs) are promising candidates as non-flammable plasticizers for lowering the operation temperature of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs), but they present limitations in terms of lithium-ion transport, such as a much lower lithium transference number. Thus, a pyrrolidinium cation was prepared with an oligo(ethylene oxide) substituent with seven repeating units. We show, by a combination of experimental characterizations and simulations, that the cation's solvating properties allow faster lithium-ion transport than alkyl-substituted analogues when incorporated in SPEs. This proceeds not only by accelerating the conduction modes of PEO, but also by enabling new conduction modes linked to the solvation of lithi

SUBMITTER: Atik J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8252488 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature