Study of solid polyurethane electrolytes synthesized from HDI and PEO of different molecular weight
作者：Qian Zhang*, Yuhao Wen, Kang Liu, Nailiang Liu, Yaping Du, Chunjie Ma, Liang Zhou, Yongri Liang*,
關鍵字：Solid polymer electrolyte, Lithium ion battery,Polyurethane
論文來源：期刊
發表時間：2021年
The development of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) is important for the fabrication of safe and high performance lithium ion battery of the next generation. A series of polyurethanes (PUs) based SPEs synthesized from
hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and poly(ethylene glycol)s (PEGs) of varying molecular weight
(MW = 300 ~ 1500 corresponding to PU03 ~ PU15) via one-step approach are investigated for the conductivity
of lithium ion and other electrochemical properties. These synthetic PUs exhibit semi-crystalline structures
when the MW of PEG is higher than 300, and turn into amorphous after the addition of LiClO4. The ionic conductivity decreases with the increasing concentration of LiClO4. The highest lithium ion conductivity was
found to be 3.42 × 10?5 S/cm for PU15 with 10 wt% LiClO4 at 50 °C. However, its lithium ion transference
number is low by 0.15. All of the PU-based SPEs containing 10 wt% LiClO4 are electrochemically stable up to
4.2 ~ 4.5 V versus Li+/Li, and show very good cycling stability in charge/discharge experiments. In the assembled battery with LiFePO4 as the cathode, PU15 displays higher performances than PU03, indicating good correlation to the molecular weight of PEG.