Designing solid-state electrolytes for safe, energy-dense batteries

Q Zhao, S Stalin, CZ Zhao, LA Archer - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) have emerged as high-priority materials for safe, energy-
dense and reversible storage of electrochemical energy in batteries. In this Review, we …

A review on ion transport pathways and coordination chemistry between ions and electrolytes in energy storage devices

AE Gerdroodbar, H Alihemmati… - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The design and construction of energy storage systems, such as batteries and
supercapacitors, represent one of the most pioneering research domains in scientific …

Deciphering and Integrating Functionalized Side Chains for High Ion‐Conductive Elastic Ternary Copolymer Solid‐State Electrolytes for Safe Lithium Metal Batteries

H Xu, J Yang, Y Niu, X Hou, Z Sun, C Jiang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A critical challenge in solid polymer lithium batteries is developing a polymer matrix that can
harmonize ionic transportation, electrochemical stability, and mechanical durability. We …

Effect of polymer polarity on ion transport: a competition between ion aggregation and polymer segmental dynamics

BK Wheatle, NA Lynd, V Ganesan - ACS Macro Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this work, we use computer simulations to demonstrate that there may be limits to which
polymer polarity alone can be used to influence the ionic conductivity of salt-doped polymer …

The role of backbone polarity on aggregation and conduction of ions in polymer electrolytes

NS Schauser, DJ Grzetic, T Tabassum… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The usual understanding in polymer electrolyte design is that an increase in the polymer
dielectric constant results in reduced ion aggregation and therefore increased ionic …

Effects of ion size and dielectric constant on ion transport and transference number in polymer electrolytes

KH Shen, LM Hall - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Salt-doped polymers without added solvents have the potential to be nonflammable, robust
electrolytes for batteries but suffer from low ion conductivity. Using bulky anions with …

Influence of dielectric constant on ionic transport in polyether-based electrolytes

BK Wheatle, JR Keith, S Mogurampelly… - ACS Macro …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We use all-atom molecular dynamics simulations to study the effect of polymer polarity, as
quantified by the dielectric constant, on the transport properties of lithium bis …

Effects of solvent polarity on Li-ion diffusion in polymer electrolytes: An all-atom molecular dynamics study with charge scaling

H Gudla, C Zhang, D Brandell - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We herein report an all-atom molecular dynamics study on the role of solvent polarity for Li+
diffusion in polymer electrolytes using PEO–LiTFSI (poly (ethylene oxide)–lithium bis …

Design of polymer blend electrolytes through a machine learning approach

BK Wheatle, EF Fuentes, NA Lynd, V Ganesan - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
We apply a machine learning (ML) technique to the multiobjective design of polymer blend
electrolytes. In particular, we are interested in maximizing electrolyte performance measured …

Polyethers based on short-chain alkyl glycidyl ethers: thermoresponsive and highly biocompatible materials

R Matthes, H Frey - Biomacromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
The polymerization of short-chain alkyl glycidyl ethers (SCAGEs) enables the synthesis of
biocompatible polyethers with finely tunable hydrophilicity. Aliphatic polyethers, most …