Perspective: Morphology and ion transport in ion-containing polymers from multiscale modeling and simulations

Z Zhu, SJ Paddison - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ion-containing polymers are soft materials composed of polymeric chains and mobile ions.
Over the past several decades they have been the focus of considerable research and …

Polymer Architecture-Induced Trade-off between Conductivities and Transference Numbers in Salt-Doped Polymeric Ionic Liquids

Z Zhang, N Marioni, HS Sachar, V Ganesan - ACS Macro Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent experiments have demonstrated that polymeric ionic liquids that share the same
cation and anion but possess different architectures can exhibit markedly different …

Molecular modelling of ionic liquids: Physical properties of species with extremely long aliphatic chains from a near-optimal regime

Z Sun, A Kayal, Z Gong, L Zheng, Q He - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
Basic issues of molecular modelling of ionic liquids with fixed-charge force fields are
validated from extensive free energy calculations, component-specific force-field refitting …

Effect of Ion Mass on Dynamic Correlations in Ionic Liquids

MD Ahmed, Z Zhu, A Khamzin… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a class of liquid salts with distinct properties such as high ionic
conductivity, low volatility, and a broad electrochemical window, making them appealing for …

Molecular modelling of ionic liquids: Situations when charge scaling seems insufficient

Z Sun, L Zheng, ZY Zhang, Y Cong, M Wang, X Wang… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Charge scaling as an effective solution to the experiment–computation disagreement in
molecular modelling of ionic liquids (ILs) could bring the computational results close to the …

Accurate modelling of pyrrolidinium ionic liquids with charge and vdW scaling

Z Sun, X Liu, L Zheng, T Cheng, P Kalhor… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Molecular simulation as a complementing tool to experimental measurements has grown to
be an instrument with predictive power for ionic liquids (ILs) derivatives. The combination of …

Ion correlations and partial ionicities in the lamellar phases of block copolymeric ionic liquids

Z Zhang, J Sass, J Krajniak, V Ganesan - ACS Macro Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recently, significant interest has arisen on the impact of dynamical ion correlations on the
conductivity and transport properties of polymeric electrolyte materials. It has been …

Explicit polarization in Coarse-Grained simulations of ionomer melts

C Balzer, AL Frischknecht - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
The structure and morphology of ionic aggregates in ionomer melts significantly influence
their ion transport properties. Understanding the underlying mechanisms and relevant time …

The influence of counterion structure identity on conductivity, dynamical correlations, and ion transport mechanisms in polymerized ionic liquids

Z Zhang, R Krishna, ES Zofchak, N Marioni… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We used equilibrium and non-equilibrium atomistic simulations to probe the influence of
anion chemistry on the true conductivity, dynamical correlations, and ion transport …

Charge Scaling in Classical Force Fields for Lithium Ions in Polymers

D Liang, Y Chen, C Deng, JJ de Pablo - ACS Macro Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polymer electrolytes are of interest for applications in energy storage. Molecular simulations
of ion transport in polymer electrolytes have been widely used to study the conductivity in …