Abstract
Gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) is recently attracting a significant attention for lithium air batteries (LABs) due to better reliability compared with liquid type electrolyte and higher ionic conductivity compared with solid type electrolyte. In this paper, we report a new combination of polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-based GPE with tetrachloro-1,4-benzoquinone (tCl-pBQ) as the redox mediator for the LAB application. The synthesized PAN/tCl-pBQ GPE with lithium bis (tri-fluoro-methane-sulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI)/tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether (TEGDME) displays a decrease in the LAB charge voltage from ~ 4.2 to 3.6 V and a ~ 10% increase in energy cycle efficiency compared with PAN GPE without tCl-pBQ. The decrease in charge voltage improves the cyclability from 8 to 98 cycles. Structural analyses reveal that addition of tCl-pBQ accelerates the formation of an amorphous phase in the PAN-based gel polymer electrolyte matrix, improving the ionic conductivity from 7.64 to 12.5 mS cm−1 at room temperature.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 835-842 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Membrane Science |
| Volume | 563 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 Oct 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the “ICT Consilience Creative Program” ( IITP-2017-2017-0-01015 ) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion).
Funding Information:
This research was supported by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the “ICT Consilience Creative Program” (IITP-2017-2017-0-01015) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biochemistry
- Materials Science(all)
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Filtration and Separation