Blends of POSS−PEO(n=4)8 and High Molecular Weight Poly(ethylene oxide) as Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries
- 21 March 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Vol. 111 (14), 3583-3590
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp064585g
Abstract
Solid polymer electrolyte blends were prepared with POSS-PEO(n=4)8 (3K), poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO(600K)), and LiClO4 at different salt concentrations (O/Li = 8/1, 12/1, and 16/1). POSS-PEO(n=4)8/LiClO4 is amorphous at all O/Li investigated, whereas PEO(600K) is amorphous only for O/Li = 8/1 and semicrystalline for O/Li = 12/1 and 16/1. The tendency of PEO(600K) to crystallize limited the amount of POSS-PEO(n=4)(8) that could be incorporated into the blends, so that the greatest incorporation of POSS-PEO(n=4)(8) occurred for O/Li = 8/1. Blends of POSS-PEO(n=4)(8)/PEO(600K)/LiClO4 (O/Li = 8/1 and 12/1) microphase separated into two amorphous phases, a low T(g) phase of composition 85% POSS-PEO(n=4)(8)/15% PEO(600K) and a high T(g) phase of composition 29% POSS-PEO(n=4)(8)/71% PEO(600K). For O/Li = 16/1, the blends contained crystalline (pure PEO(600K)), and two amorphous phases, one rich in POSS-PEO(n=4)(8) and one rich in PEO(600K). Microphase, rather than macrophase separation was believed to occur as a result of Li(+)/ether oxygen cross-link sites. The conductivity of the blends depended on their composition. As expected, crystallinity decreased the conductivity of the blends. For the amorphous blends, when the low T(g) (80/20) phase was the continuous phase, the conductivity was intermediate between that of pure PEO(600K) and POSS-PEO(n=4)(8). When the high T(g) (70/30, 50/50, 30/70, and 20/80) phase was the continuous phase, the conductivity of the blend and PEO(600K) were identical, and lower than that for the POSS-PEO(n=4)(8) over the whole temperature range (10-90 degrees C). This suggests that the motions of the POSS-PEO(n=4)(8) were slowed down by the dynamics of the long chain PEO(600K) and that the minor, low Tg phase was not interconnected and thus did not contribute to enhanced conductivity. At temperatures above T(m) of PEO(600K), addition of the POSS-PEO(n=4)(8) did not result in conductivity improvement. The highest RT conductivity, 8 x 10(-6) S/cm, was obtained for a 60% POSS-PEO(n=4)(8)/40% PEO(600K)/LiClO4 (O/Li = 12/1) blend.Keywords
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