Final Report: Mobile Ions in Fast, June 15, 1994 - December 14, 1995
The principal motivation for applying for support under this program derives from the recent demonstration of the feasibility of a new type of rubbery solid electrolyte based on a principle which has previously not been examined, and one which seems to provide single ion conducting electrolytes of very high specific conductivity. The new development, a description of which is currently in press in Nature, is best described as a rubberized molten salt, made by the addition of a small amount of high molecular weight polymer to an ambient temperature mixture of lithium salts in the liquid state. While the electrolyte is usually metastable with respect to crystallization, the latter process is very slow, and in some cases, the melts may even be thermodynamically stable. Current research is being aimed at stabilizing the liquid state and also decreasing the glass transition temperature in order that the ambient temperature conductivity can be made even higher. It is with the exploitation of broadening and intensification of this line of research to include new anion, and new polymer synthesis, that the main part that this proposal is concerned.
- Research Organization:
- Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-89ER45398
- OSTI ID:
- 761343
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 14 Dec 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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