DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Capacitance of thin films containing polymerized ionic liquids

Abstract

Electrode-polymer interfaces dictate many of the properties of thin films such as capacitance, the electric field experienced by polymers, and charge transport. However, structure and dynamics of charged polymers near electrodes remain poorly understood, especially in the high concentration limit representative of the melts. To develop an understanding of electric field–induced transformations of electrode-polymer interfaces, we have studied electrified interfaces of an imidazolium-based polymerized ionic liquid (PolyIL) using combinations of broadband dielectric spectroscopy, specular neutron reflectivity, and simulations based on the Rayleigh’s dissipation function formalism. Overall, we obtained the camel-shaped dependence of the capacitance on applied voltage, which originated from the responses of an adsorbed polymer layer to applied voltages. This work provides additional insights related to the effects of molecular weight in affecting structure and properties of electrode-polymer interfaces, which are essential for designing next-generation energy storage and harvesting devices.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [5]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Silesia, Chorzow (Poland)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
  5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1649210
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Science Advances
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 26; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher:
AAAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Kumar, Rajeev, Mahalik, Jyoti P., Silmore, Kevin S., Wojnarowska, Zaneta, Erwin, Andrew J., Ankner, John Francis, Sokolov, Alexei P., Sumpter, Bobby, and Bocharova, Vera. Capacitance of thin films containing polymerized ionic liquids. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aba7952.
Kumar, Rajeev, Mahalik, Jyoti P., Silmore, Kevin S., Wojnarowska, Zaneta, Erwin, Andrew J., Ankner, John Francis, Sokolov, Alexei P., Sumpter, Bobby, & Bocharova, Vera. Capacitance of thin films containing polymerized ionic liquids. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba7952
Kumar, Rajeev, Mahalik, Jyoti P., Silmore, Kevin S., Wojnarowska, Zaneta, Erwin, Andrew J., Ankner, John Francis, Sokolov, Alexei P., Sumpter, Bobby, and Bocharova, Vera. Fri . "Capacitance of thin films containing polymerized ionic liquids". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba7952. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1649210.
@article{osti_1649210,
title = {Capacitance of thin films containing polymerized ionic liquids},
author = {Kumar, Rajeev and Mahalik, Jyoti P. and Silmore, Kevin S. and Wojnarowska, Zaneta and Erwin, Andrew J. and Ankner, John Francis and Sokolov, Alexei P. and Sumpter, Bobby and Bocharova, Vera},
abstractNote = {Electrode-polymer interfaces dictate many of the properties of thin films such as capacitance, the electric field experienced by polymers, and charge transport. However, structure and dynamics of charged polymers near electrodes remain poorly understood, especially in the high concentration limit representative of the melts. To develop an understanding of electric field–induced transformations of electrode-polymer interfaces, we have studied electrified interfaces of an imidazolium-based polymerized ionic liquid (PolyIL) using combinations of broadband dielectric spectroscopy, specular neutron reflectivity, and simulations based on the Rayleigh’s dissipation function formalism. Overall, we obtained the camel-shaped dependence of the capacitance on applied voltage, which originated from the responses of an adsorbed polymer layer to applied voltages. This work provides additional insights related to the effects of molecular weight in affecting structure and properties of electrode-polymer interfaces, which are essential for designing next-generation energy storage and harvesting devices.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aba7952},
journal = {Science Advances},
number = 26,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 8 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Molecular Layering of Fluorinated Ionic Liquids at a Charged Sapphire (0001) Surface
journal, October 2008


Theories and Problems of Liquid Diffusion
journal, November 1945


Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future
journal, July 2009

  • Armand, Michel; Endres, Frank; MacFarlane, Douglas R.
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 8, p. 621-629
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat2448

Differential capacitance of the electric double layer: The interplay between ion finite size and dielectric decrement
journal, January 2015

  • Nakayama, Yasuya; Andelman, David
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 142, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4906319

Differential capacitance of the double layer at the electrode/ionic liquids interface
journal, January 2010

  • Lockett, Vera; Horne, Mike; Sedev, Rossen
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 39
  • DOI: 10.1039/c0cp00170h

Mechanism of Conductivity Relaxation in Liquid and Polymeric Electrolytes: Direct Link between Conductivity and Diffusivity
journal, October 2016

  • Gainaru, C.; Stacy, E. W.; Bocharova, V.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 120, Issue 42
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b08567

Differential Capacity of Mercury in Aqueous Sodium Fluoride Solutions. I. Effect of Concentration at 25°
journal, October 1954

  • Grahame, David C.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 76, Issue 19
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja01648a014

Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
book, January 2003


Simulating Supercapacitors: Can We Model Electrodes As Constant Charge Surfaces?
journal, December 2012

  • Merlet, Céline; Péan, Clarisse; Rotenberg, Benjamin
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 4, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1021/jz3019226

Alkyl-Substituted N-Vinylimidazolium Polymerized Ionic Liquids: Thermal Properties and Ionic Conductivities
journal, October 2011

  • Green, Matthew D.; Salas-de la Cruz, David; Ye, Yuesheng
  • Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 212, Issue 23
  • DOI: 10.1002/macp.201100389

Oscillation of Capacitance inside Nanopores
journal, December 2011

  • Jiang, De-en; Jin, Zhehui; Wu, Jianzhong
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 11, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl202952d

Ionic Liquids at Electrified Interfaces
journal, March 2014

  • Fedorov, Maxim V.; Kornyshev, Alexei A.
  • Chemical Reviews, Vol. 114, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1021/cr400374x

Monomer volume fraction profiles in pH responsive planar polyelectrolyte brushes
journal, March 2016

  • Mahalik, J. P.; Yang, Yubo; Deodhar, Chaitra
  • Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol. 54, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1002/polb.24008

Automatic Fréchet Differentiation for the Numerical Solution of Boundary-Value Problems
journal, August 2012

  • Birkisson, Asgeir; Driscoll, Tobin A.
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 38, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1145/2331130.2331134

Long-range electrostatic screening in ionic liquids
journal, May 2015

  • Gebbie, Matthew A.; Dobbs, Howard A.; Valtiner, Markus
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 112, Issue 24
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508366112

Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Polymerized Ionic Liquids
journal, September 2018

  • Yu, Zhou; Fang, Chao; Huang, Jingsong
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 122, Issue 39
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06065

Potential-Induced Ordering Transition of the Adsorbed Layer at the Ionic Liquid/Electrified Metal Interface
journal, July 2010

  • Tazi, Sami; Salanne, Mathieu; Simon, Christian
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 114, Issue 25
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp1030448

The Electrical Double Layer and the Theory of Electrocapillarity.
journal, December 1947


A Rayleighian approach for modeling kinetics of ionic transport in polymeric media
journal, February 2017

  • Kumar, Rajeev; Mahalik, Jyoti P.; Bocharova, Vera
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 146, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4975309

A Convenient Method to Estimate Ion Size for Electrolyte Materials Design
journal, January 2002

  • Ue, Makoto; Murakami, Akinori; Nakamura, Shinichiro
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 149, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1149/1.1507593

Review on supercapacitors: Technologies and materials
journal, May 2016

  • González, Ander; Goikolea, Eider; Barrena, Jon Andoni
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 58
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.249

The Electrostatic Screening Length in Concentrated Electrolytes Increases with Concentration
journal, May 2016

  • Smith, Alexander M.; Lee, Alpha A.; Perkin, Susan
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00867

Interpreting Neutron Reflectivity Profiles of Diblock Copolymer Nanocomposite Thin Films Using Hybrid Particle-Field Simulations
journal, April 2018


Nanoscale Resolution of Electric-field Induced Motion in Ionic Diblock Copolymer Thin Films
journal, September 2018

  • Dugger, Jason W.; Li, Wei; Chen, Mingtao
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 10, Issue 38
  • DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b11220

Slow and fast capacitive process taking place at the ionic liquid/electrode interface
journal, January 2012

  • Roling, Bernhard; Drüschler, Marcel; Huber, Benedikt
  • Faraday Discuss., Vol. 154
  • DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00088H

Onsager’s variational principle in soft matter
journal, June 2011


Ionic liquids in confined geometries
journal, January 2012

  • Perkin, Susan
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1039/c2cp23814d

Supercapacitor Capacitance Exhibits Oscillatory Behavior as a Function of Nanopore Size
journal, October 2011

  • Feng, Guang; Cummings, Peter T.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 2, Issue 22
  • DOI: 10.1021/jz201312e

Microphase separation in thin films of lamellar forming polydisperse di-block copolymers
journal, January 2015

  • Kumar, Rajeev; Lokitz, Bradley S.; Sides, Scott W.
  • RSC Advances, Vol. 5, Issue 27
  • DOI: 10.1039/C5RA00974J

The Electric Double-Layer Differential Capacitance at and near Zero Surface Charge for a Restricted Primitive Model Electrolyte
journal, July 2009

  • Lamperski, Stanislaw; Outhwaite, Christopher W.; Bhuiyan, Lutful B.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 113, Issue 26
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp900037h

Double Layer in Ionic Liquids: Overscreening versus Crowding
journal, January 2011


Orientation and mutual location of ions at the surface of ionic liquids
journal, January 2010

  • Lockett, Vera; Sedev, Rossen; Harmer, Sarah
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 12, Issue 41
  • DOI: 10.1039/c0cp00683a

Double-Layer in Ionic Liquids:  Paradigm Change?
journal, May 2007

  • Kornyshev, Alexei A.
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 111, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1021/jp067857o

Single Ion Conducting, Polymerized Ionic Liquid Triblock Copolymer Films: High Capacitance Electrolyte Gates for n-type Transistors
journal, March 2015

  • Choi, Jae-Hong; Xie, Wei; Gu, Yuanyan
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 7, Issue 13
  • DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00495