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Dependence of Morphology, Shear Modulus, and Conductivity on the Composition of Lithiated and Magnesiated Single-Ion-Conducting Block Copolymer Electrolytes
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posted on 2017-10-18, 19:16 authored by Adriana
A. Rojas, Kanav Thakker, Kyle D. McEntush, Sebnem Inceoglu, Gregory M. Stone, Nitash P. BalsaraSingle-ion-conducting
block copolymers are of considerable interest
as electrolytes for battery systems, as they eliminate overpotentials
due to concentration gradients. In this study, we characterize a library
of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based diblock copolymers where the second
block is poly(styrene-4-sulfonyltrifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide
with either cation: univalent lithium or divalent magnesium counterions
(PEO–PSLiTFSI or PEO–P[(STFSI)2Mg]). The
PEO chain length is held fixed in this study. Polymers were synthesized
in matched pairs that were identical in all aspects except for the
identity of the counterion. Using rheology, SAXS, DSC, and AC impedance
spectroscopy, we show that the dependence of morphology, modulus,
and conductivity on composition in these charged copolymer systems
is fundamentally different from uncharged block copolymers. At a given
frequency and temperature, the shear moduli of the magnesiated copolymer
systems were approximately 3–4 orders of magnitude higher than
those of the matched lithiated pair. The shear moduli of all of the
lithiated copolymers showed liquid-like rheological features while
the magnesiated copolymers did not. All of the lithiated copolymers
were completely disordered (homogeneous), consistent with the observed
rheological properties. As expected, the moduli of the lithiated copolymers
increased with increasing volume fraction of the ion-containing block
(ϕPSTFSI), and the conductivity decreased with ϕPSTFSI. However, the magnesiated copolymers followed a distinct
trend. We show that this was due to the presence of microphase separation
in the regime 0.21 ≤ ϕPSTFSI ≤ 0.36,
and the tendency for microphase separation became weaker with increasing
ϕPSTFSI. The magnesiated copolymer with ϕPSTFSI = 0.38 was homogeneous. The morphological, rheological,
and conductivity properties of these systems are governed by the affinity
of the cations for PEO chains; homogeneous systems are obtained when
the cations migrate from the ion-containing block to PEO.
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Magnesiated Single-Ion-Conducting Block Copolymer Electrolytes Single-ion-conducting block copolymersAC impedance spectroscopymicrophase separationshear modulilithiated copolymersdivalent magnesium counterionsconductivitySAXSmagnesiated copolymersϕ PSTFSIDSCmagnesiated copolymer systemscationPEO chain lengthliquid-like rheological features
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