UV-Cured Poly(Siloxane-Urethane)-Based Polymer Composite Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries—The Effect of Modification with Ionic Liquids
Open Access
- 5 November 2020
- Vol. 13 (21), 4978
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13214978
Abstract
The results of studies on the synthesis and characterization of conductive polymer composite materials designed as potential separators for lithium ion batteries are presented. The conductive polymer composites were prepared from UV-cured poly(siloxane-urethanes)s (PSURs) containing poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) segments and modified with lithium salts and ionic liquids (ILs). The most encouraging results in terms of specific conductivity and mechanical properties of the composite were obtained when part of UV-curable PSUR prepolymer was replaced with a reactive UV-curable IL. Morphology of the composites modified with ILs or containing a standard ethylene carbonate/dimethyl carbonate mixture (EC/DMC) as solvent was compared. It was found that the composites showed a two-phase structure that did not change when non-reactive ILs were applied instead of EC/DMC but was much affected when reactive UV-curable ILs were used. The selected IL-modified UV-cured PSUR composite that did not contain flammable EC/DMC solvent was preliminarily tested as gel polymer electrolyte and separator for lithium ion batteries.This publication has 75 references indexed in Scilit:
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