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Ion Correlations and Partial Ionicities in the Lamellar Phases of Block Copolymeric Ionic Liquids. ACS Macro Lett 2022; 11:1265-1271. [DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.2c00401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Gregory GL, Gao H, Liu B, Gao X, Rees GJ, Pasta M, Bruce PG, Williams CK. Buffering Volume Change in Solid-State Battery Composite Cathodes with CO 2-Derived Block Polycarbonate Ethers. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:17477-17486. [PMID: 36122375 PMCID: PMC9523710 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c06138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Polymers designed with a specific combination of electrochemical, mechanical, and chemical properties could help overcome challenges limiting practical all-solid-state batteries for high-performance next-generation energy storage devices. In composite cathodes, comprising active cathode material, inorganic solid electrolyte, and carbon, battery longevity is limited by active particle volume changes occurring on charge/discharge. To overcome this, impractical high pressures are applied to maintain interfacial contact. Herein, block polymers designed to address these issues combine ionic conductivity, electrochemical stability, and suitable elastomeric mechanical properties, including adhesion. The block polymers have "hard-soft-hard", ABA, block structures, where the soft "B" block is poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), known to promote ionic conductivity, and the hard "A" block is a CO2-derived polycarbonate, poly(4-vinyl cyclohexene oxide carbonate), which provides mechanical rigidity and enhances oxidative stability. ABA block polymers featuring controllable PEO and polycarbonate lengths are straightforwardly prepared using hydroxyl telechelic PEO as a macroinitiator for CO2/epoxide ring-opening copolymerization and a well-controlled Mg(II)Co(II) catalyst. The influence of block polymer composition upon electrochemical and mechanical properties is investigated, with phosphonic acid functionalities being installed in the polycarbonate domains for adhesive properties. Three lead polymer materials are identified; these materials show an ambient ionic conductivity of 10 -4 S cm-1, lithium-ion transport (tLi+ 0.3-0.62), oxidative stability (>4 V vs Li+/Li), and elastomeric or plastomer properties (G' 0.1-67 MPa). The best block polymers are used in composite cathodes with LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 active material and Li6PS5Cl solid electrolyte-the resulting solid-state batteries demonstrate greater capacity retention than equivalent cells featuring no polymer or commercial polyelectrolytes.
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- Georgina L Gregory
- Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, U.K
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, U.K
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, U.K
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, U.K
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, U.K
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- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, U.K
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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Grundy LS, Galluzzo MD, Loo WS, Fong AY, Balsara NP, Takacs CJ. Inaccessible Polarization-Induced Phase Transitions in a Block Copolymer Electrolyte: An Unconventional Mechanism for the Limiting Current. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lorena S. Grundy
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Zhang S, Kumar R. Effects of Local Order Parameter Dependent Transport Coefficient in Diblock Copolymers Under Applied Electric Fields. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:174903. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0089797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We present an approach for constructing thermodynamically consistent time-dependent models relevant to thin films of diblock copolymers in applied electric fields. The approach is based on the principles of linear irreversible thermodynamics and in this work, it is applied to study the effects of electric fields on thin films of incompressible diblock copolymers. Enforcement of local incompressibility constraint at all times leads to a local order parameter dependent transport coefficient in the model for the diblock copolymers. The dependence of transport coefficient on the local order parameter is used to relate it with diffusion constant of Rouse chains and leads to sensitivity of the model to initial conditions. Also, transient behavior is found to be a affected when compared with an ad hoc model assuming a constant transport coefficient. Numerical results such as electric field induced alignment of lamellae domains due to the field are found to be in qualitative agreements with experiments.This approach opens up a systematic way of developing kinetic models for simulating effects of electrolytes added to thin films containing diblock copolymers in the presence of applied electric fields.
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
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Zhang Z, Lin D, Ganesan V. Mechanisms of ion transport in lithium salt‐doped polymeric ionic liquid electrolytes at higher salt concentrations. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20210737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Zidan Zhang
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas USA
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Galluzzo MD, Grundy LS, Takacs CJ, Cao C, Steinrück HG, Fu S, Rivas Valadez MA, Toney MF, Balsara NP. Orientation-Dependent Distortion of Lamellae in a Block Copolymer Electrolyte under DC Polarization. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Michael D. Galluzzo
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- Department Chemie, Universität Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Zhang Z, Krajniak J, Ganesan V. A Multiscale Simulation Study of Influence of Morphology on Ion Transport in Block Copolymeric Ionic Liquids. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Zidan Zhang
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Independent researcher, os. Kosmonautow 13/56, 61-631 Poznan, Poland
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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