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Soft matter lithium salt electrolytes: ion conduction and application to rechargeable batteries

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Soft matter provides diverse opportunities for the development of electrolytes for all solid state lithium batteries. Here we review soft matter solid electrolytes for lithium batteriesthat are primarily obtained starting from liquid electrolytic systems. This concept of solid electrolyte synthesis from liquid is significantly different from prevalent approaches. The novelty of our approach is discussed in the light of various fundamental issues and in relation to its application to rechargeable lithium batteries.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the assistance of Prof. M.K. Surappa (Materials Engineering, IISc, Bangalore) and Mr. S. Pandit (Materials Engineering, IISC, Bangalore) for the tensile testing of plastic-polymer composites, Mr. I.S. Jarali (SSCU) for his technical support regarding DSC, FTIR and BET measurements, U. Traub (MPI-FKF Stuttgart, Germany) for technical discussions in relation to impedance spectroscopy, C. Panitz, Chemetall Gmbh., Germany, for the LiClO4, and Morita Chemical Company, Japan, for the LiTFSI. The authors thank Dr. R. Dominko and Dr. M. Gaberscek, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia for the C-LiFePO4 samples. MP and SKD, respectively, thank CSIR (New Delhi, India) and IISc (Bangalore, India) for JRF. AJB thanks DST, Government of India (New Delhi, India), for research funding. Finally, AJB is extremely grateful to Prof. J. Maier, MPI-FKF (Stuttgart, Germany), for continuing to provide the inspiration to pursue research related to soft matter ionics.

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    Aninda Jiban Bhattacharyya, Monalisa Patel & Shyamal Kumar Das

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Bhattacharyya, A.J., Patel, M. & Das, S.K. Soft matter lithium salt electrolytes: ion conduction and application to rechargeable batteries. Monatsh Chem 140, 1001–1010 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-009-0132-8

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Keywords

  • Ionic conductivity
  • Soft matter
  • Composite electrolyte
  • Heterogeneous doping
  • Oxide particles
  • Plastic crystal
  • Lithium battery