Safety issues rising from the use of conventional liquid electrolytes in lithium-based batteries are currently limiting their application to electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage from renewable sources. Polymeric electrolytes represent a solution to this problem due to their intrinsic safety. Ideally, polymer electrolytes should display both high lithium transference number (tLi+) and ionic conductivity. Practically, strategies for increasing tLi+ often result in low ionic conductivity and vice versa. Herein, networked polymer electrolytes simultaneously displaying tLi+ approaching unity and high ionic conductivity (σ ≈ 10–4 S cm–1 at 25 °C) are presented. Lithium cells operating at room temperature demonstrate the promising prospect of these materials.

Single-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Polymer Batteries that Operate at Ambient Temperature / Porcarelli, Luca; Shaplov, A. S.; Bella, Federico; Nair, JIJEESH RAVI; Mecerreyes, D.; Gerbaldi, Claudio. - In: ACS ENERGY LETTERS. - ISSN 2380-8195. - ELETTRONICO. - 1:(2016), pp. 678-682. [10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00216]

Single-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Polymer Batteries that Operate at Ambient Temperature

PORCARELLI, LUCA;BELLA, FEDERICO;NAIR, JIJEESH RAVI;GERBALDI, CLAUDIO
2016

Abstract

Safety issues rising from the use of conventional liquid electrolytes in lithium-based batteries are currently limiting their application to electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage from renewable sources. Polymeric electrolytes represent a solution to this problem due to their intrinsic safety. Ideally, polymer electrolytes should display both high lithium transference number (tLi+) and ionic conductivity. Practically, strategies for increasing tLi+ often result in low ionic conductivity and vice versa. Herein, networked polymer electrolytes simultaneously displaying tLi+ approaching unity and high ionic conductivity (σ ≈ 10–4 S cm–1 at 25 °C) are presented. Lithium cells operating at room temperature demonstrate the promising prospect of these materials.
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