TY - JOUR
T1 - Lamellar Ionenes with Highly Dissociative, Anionic Channels Provide Lower Barriers for Cation Transport
AU - Stolberg, Michael A.
AU - Paren, Benjamin A.
AU - Leon, Pablo A.
AU - Brown, Christopher M.
AU - Winter, Gavin
AU - Gordiz, Kiarash
AU - Concellón, Alberto
AU - Gómez-Bombarelli, Rafael
AU - Shao-Horn, Yang
AU - Johnson, Jeremiah A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2023/7/26
Y1 - 2023/7/26
N2 - Solid polymer electrolytes have the potential to enable safer and more energy-dense batteries; however, a deeper understanding of their ion conduction mechanisms, and how they can be optimized by molecular design, is needed to realize this goal. Here, we investigate the impact of anion dissociation energy on ion conduction in solid polymer electrolytes via a novel class of ionenes prepared using acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization of highly dissociative, liquid crystalline fluorinated aryl sulfonimide-tagged (“FAST”) anion monomers. These ionenes with various cations (Li+, Na+, K+, and Cs+) form well-ordered lamellae that are thermally stable up to 180 °C and feature domain spacings that correlate with cation size, providing channels lined with dissociative FAST anions. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) experiments, along with nudged elastic band (NEB) calculations, suggest that cation motion in these materials operates via an ion-hopping mechanism. The activation energy for Li+ conduction is 59 kJ/mol, which is among the lowest for systems that are proposed to operate via an ion conduction mechanism that is decoupled from polymer segmental motion. Moreover, the addition of a cation-coordinating solvent to these materials led to a >1000-fold increase in ionic conductivity without detectable disruption of the lamellar structure, suggesting selective solvation of the lamellar ion channels. This work demonstrates that molecular design can facilitate controlled formation of dissociative anionic channels that translate to significant enhancements in ion conduction in solid polymer electrolytes.
AB - Solid polymer electrolytes have the potential to enable safer and more energy-dense batteries; however, a deeper understanding of their ion conduction mechanisms, and how they can be optimized by molecular design, is needed to realize this goal. Here, we investigate the impact of anion dissociation energy on ion conduction in solid polymer electrolytes via a novel class of ionenes prepared using acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization of highly dissociative, liquid crystalline fluorinated aryl sulfonimide-tagged (“FAST”) anion monomers. These ionenes with various cations (Li+, Na+, K+, and Cs+) form well-ordered lamellae that are thermally stable up to 180 °C and feature domain spacings that correlate with cation size, providing channels lined with dissociative FAST anions. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) experiments, along with nudged elastic band (NEB) calculations, suggest that cation motion in these materials operates via an ion-hopping mechanism. The activation energy for Li+ conduction is 59 kJ/mol, which is among the lowest for systems that are proposed to operate via an ion conduction mechanism that is decoupled from polymer segmental motion. Moreover, the addition of a cation-coordinating solvent to these materials led to a >1000-fold increase in ionic conductivity without detectable disruption of the lamellar structure, suggesting selective solvation of the lamellar ion channels. This work demonstrates that molecular design can facilitate controlled formation of dissociative anionic channels that translate to significant enhancements in ion conduction in solid polymer electrolytes.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.3c05053
DO - 10.1021/jacs.3c05053
M3 - Article
C2 - 37459594
AN - SCOPUS:85165735315
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 145
SP - 16200
EP - 16209
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 29
ER -