Correlations between Salt-Induced Crystallization, Morphology, Segmental Dynamics, and Conductivity in Amorphous Block Copolymer Electrolytes

doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02415

Title: Correlations between Salt-Induced Crystallization, Morphology, Segmental Dynamics, and Conductivity in Amorphous Block Copolymer Electrolytes

Abstract

Block copolymer electrolytes have been shown to increase the cycle life of rechargeable batteries that utilize high capacity lithium anodes. Most block copolymer electrolyte studies have been centered on polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene oxide) (SEO) mixed with lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) salt and are limited to salt concentrations in the vicinity of r[Li]/[EO] = 0.1, where [Li] and [EO] are the concentration of lithium and ethylene oxide moieties, respectively, as the conductivity of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) homopolymer electrolytes is maximized at this concentration.Here, in this paper, we study the morphology and conductivity of electrolytes derived from a high molecular weight SEO block copolymer over the wide LiTFSI concentration range of 0 ≤ r ≤ 0.550. For electrolytes with r ≥ 0.125, the crystallization of PEO-LiTFSI complexes with stoichiometric ratios of 6:1, 3:1, or 2:1 (EO:Li) is shown to correlate with morphology as determined by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM): some samples that are semicrystalline at room temperature exhibit regions of periodic lamellar ordering, whereas those that do not crystallize have aperiodic packed-ellipsoid morphologies. SAXS profiles below and above the melting temperatures of the crystals are identical, indicating that the crystals are confined within the block copolymer domains. The conductivitiesmore »« less

Authors:

^[1]; Wang, Andrew A. ^[2];

^[3]; Jiang, Xi ^[3]; Schaible, Eric ^[4];

^[5]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division and Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) and Environmental Energy Technologies Division

Publication Date:: 2018-02-20

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1465706

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515

Resource Type:: Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Macromolecules

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 51; Journal Issue: 5; Related Information: © 2018 American Chemical Society.; Journal ID: ISSN 0024-9297

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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                    Thelen, Jacob L., Wang, Andrew A., Chen, X. Chelsea, Jiang, Xi, Schaible, Eric, and Balsara, Nitash P. Correlations between Salt-Induced Crystallization, Morphology, Segmental Dynamics, and Conductivity in Amorphous Block Copolymer Electrolytes.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Thelen, Jacob L., Wang, Andrew A., Chen, X. Chelsea, Jiang, Xi, Schaible, Eric, & Balsara, Nitash P. Correlations between Salt-Induced Crystallization, Morphology, Segmental Dynamics, and Conductivity in Amorphous Block Copolymer Electrolytes.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02415

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                    Thelen, Jacob L., Wang, Andrew A., Chen, X. Chelsea, Jiang, Xi, Schaible, Eric, and Balsara, Nitash P. Tue .  
        "Correlations between Salt-Induced Crystallization, Morphology, Segmental Dynamics, and Conductivity in Amorphous Block Copolymer Electrolytes".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02415.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465706.

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@article{osti_1465706,

  title        = {Correlations between Salt-Induced Crystallization, Morphology, Segmental Dynamics, and Conductivity in Amorphous Block Copolymer Electrolytes},

  author       = {Thelen, Jacob L. and Wang, Andrew A. and Chen, X. Chelsea and Jiang, Xi and Schaible, Eric and Balsara, Nitash P.},

  abstractNote = {Block copolymer electrolytes have been shown to increase the cycle life of rechargeable batteries that utilize high capacity lithium anodes. Most block copolymer electrolyte studies have been centered on polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene oxide) (SEO) mixed with lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) salt and are limited to salt concentrations in the vicinity of r[Li]/[EO] = 0.1, where [Li] and [EO] are the concentration of lithium and ethylene oxide moieties, respectively, as the conductivity of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) homopolymer electrolytes is maximized at this concentration.Here, in this paper, we study the morphology and conductivity of electrolytes derived from a high molecular weight SEO block copolymer over the wide LiTFSI concentration range of 0 ≤ r ≤ 0.550. For electrolytes with r ≥ 0.125, the crystallization of PEO-LiTFSI complexes with stoichiometric ratios of 6:1, 3:1, or 2:1 (EO:Li) is shown to correlate with morphology as determined by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM): some samples that are semicrystalline at room temperature exhibit regions of periodic lamellar ordering, whereas those that do not crystallize have aperiodic packed-ellipsoid morphologies. SAXS profiles below and above the melting temperatures of the crystals are identical, indicating that the crystals are confined within the block copolymer domains. The conductivities of SEO/LiTFSI mixtures with r = 0.275, r = 0.300, and r = 0.350 are within experimental error of PEO/LiTFSI at the same salt concentrations, in spite of the presence of insulating polystyrene (PS) domains in the SEO/LiTFSI samples. We attribute this to enhanced segmental dynamics of the PEO chains in the SEO electrolytes, based on differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements of glass transition temperatures. The dependence of ionic conductivity on salt concentration in the SEO/LiTFSI electrolytes at temperatures above the melting temperature of the crystalline complexes shows three local maxima that correlate with the formation of crystalline complexes when r ≥ 0.125. Finally, these maxima arise due to a combination of the enhanced segmental dynamics and changes in morphology observed by SAXS and STEM.},

  doi          = {10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02415},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1465706},
  journal      = {Macromolecules},

  issn         = {0024-9297},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 51,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {2}

}

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