Tailored crosslinking of Poly(ethylene oxide) enables mechanical robustness and improved sodium-ion conductivity
Abstract
We report that sodium-based energy storage systems are promising candidates for electric vehicles and grid-level energy storage applications. The advancement of sodium-based energy storage systems relies on the development of high performance sodium-ion conducting electrolytes and membranes that exhibit high ionic conductivity and mechanical stability. A crosslinked poly(ethylene oxide) based polymer electrolyte was developed that demonstrates high ionic conductivity, as well as excellent mechanical stability over a wide temperature range. Ionic conductivities up to 2.0 × 10-4 S/cm at 20 °C and 7.1 × 10-4 S/cm at 70 °C are achieved for the plasticized membrane, almost four orders of magnitude greater than that of the non-plasticized membrane. The membranes are mechanically robust, and the storage modulus of the membrane is maintained at ~1 MPa from -20 to 180 °C even with the addition of plasticizer. In conclusion, this study provides a synthesis approach towards the design of highly ion conducting, mechanically robust gel polymer electrolytes for Na-ion batteries, non-aqueous flow batteries, and many other applications.
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1558567
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1560345; OSTI ID: 1843414
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-146061
Journal ID: ISSN 2405-8297
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy Storage Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 21; Journal ID: ISSN 2405-8297
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Polymer electrolyte; Poly(ethylene oxide); Sodium-ion battery; Conductivity; Mechanical robustness
Citation Formats
Lehmann, Michelle L., Yang, Guang, Gilmer, Dustin B., Han, Kee Sung, Self, Ethan C., Ruther, Rose E., Ge, Sirui, Li, Bingrui, Murugesan, Vijayakumar, Sokolov, Alexei P., Delnick, Frank M., Nanda, Jagjit, and Saito, Tomonori. Tailored crosslinking of Poly(ethylene oxide) enables mechanical robustness and improved sodium-ion conductivity. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.ensm.2019.06.028.
Lehmann, Michelle L., Yang, Guang, Gilmer, Dustin B., Han, Kee Sung, Self, Ethan C., Ruther, Rose E., Ge, Sirui, Li, Bingrui, Murugesan, Vijayakumar, Sokolov, Alexei P., Delnick, Frank M., Nanda, Jagjit, & Saito, Tomonori. Tailored crosslinking of Poly(ethylene oxide) enables mechanical robustness and improved sodium-ion conductivity. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2019.06.028
Lehmann, Michelle L., Yang, Guang, Gilmer, Dustin B., Han, Kee Sung, Self, Ethan C., Ruther, Rose E., Ge, Sirui, Li, Bingrui, Murugesan, Vijayakumar, Sokolov, Alexei P., Delnick, Frank M., Nanda, Jagjit, and Saito, Tomonori. Fri .
"Tailored crosslinking of Poly(ethylene oxide) enables mechanical robustness and improved sodium-ion conductivity". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2019.06.028. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1558567.
@article{osti_1558567,
title = {Tailored crosslinking of Poly(ethylene oxide) enables mechanical robustness and improved sodium-ion conductivity},
author = {Lehmann, Michelle L. and Yang, Guang and Gilmer, Dustin B. and Han, Kee Sung and Self, Ethan C. and Ruther, Rose E. and Ge, Sirui and Li, Bingrui and Murugesan, Vijayakumar and Sokolov, Alexei P. and Delnick, Frank M. and Nanda, Jagjit and Saito, Tomonori},
abstractNote = {We report that sodium-based energy storage systems are promising candidates for electric vehicles and grid-level energy storage applications. The advancement of sodium-based energy storage systems relies on the development of high performance sodium-ion conducting electrolytes and membranes that exhibit high ionic conductivity and mechanical stability. A crosslinked poly(ethylene oxide) based polymer electrolyte was developed that demonstrates high ionic conductivity, as well as excellent mechanical stability over a wide temperature range. Ionic conductivities up to 2.0 × 10-4 S/cm at 20 °C and 7.1 × 10-4 S/cm at 70 °C are achieved for the plasticized membrane, almost four orders of magnitude greater than that of the non-plasticized membrane. The membranes are mechanically robust, and the storage modulus of the membrane is maintained at ~1 MPa from -20 to 180 °C even with the addition of plasticizer. In conclusion, this study provides a synthesis approach towards the design of highly ion conducting, mechanically robust gel polymer electrolytes for Na-ion batteries, non-aqueous flow batteries, and many other applications.},
doi = {10.1016/j.ensm.2019.06.028},
journal = {Energy Storage Materials},
number = ,
volume = 21,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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