Title
Effect of molecular weight and salt concentration on conductivity of block copolymer electrolytes
Date Issued
14 July 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Panday A.
Mullin S.
Wanakule N.
Chen V.
Hexemer A.
Pople J.
Balsara N.
University of California
Abstract
The ionic conductivity, σ, of mixtures of nearly symmetric polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers and Li[N(SO 2CF 3) 2] (LiTFSI) salt was measured as a function of molecular weight, salt concentration, and temperature. The molecular weight of the polyethylene oxide) block, M PEO, was varied from 7 to 98 kg/mol. The molar ratio of lithium to ethylene oxide, r, was varied from 0.02 to 0.10. In general, σ increases with increasing M PEO for all values of r. The data can be summarized by plots of normalized conductivity, σ n, versus M PEO, where σ n = σ/fφ PEOσ PEO), φ PEO is the PEO volume fraction in the copolymer, σ PEO is the conductivity of PEO homopolymer, and f is a morphology-dependent factor set equal to 2/3 for our lamellar samples. The temperature-dependent conductivity data at a given salt concentration collapse onto a single curve when plotted in this format. At r = 0.085, σn values reach a plateau in the vicinity of unity in the high M PEO limit. At other values of r, σn continues to increase with M PEO within the experimental range and reaches a value of around 0.5 in the high M PEO limit. © 2009 American Chemical Society.
Start page
4632
End page
4637
Volume
42
Issue
13
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química Ciencia de los polímeros
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-67650496033
Source
Macromolecules
ISSN of the container
00249297
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