Angewandte
Communications
Chemie
Ion Conductors
Single Lithium-Ion Conducting Polymer Electrolytes Based on a Super-
Delocalized Polyanion
Qiang Ma, Heng Zhang, Chongwang Zhou, Liping Zheng, Pengfei Cheng, Jin Nie,
Wenfang Feng, Yong-Sheng Hu,* Hong Li, Xuejie Huang, Liquan Chen, Michel Armand, and
Zhibin Zhou*
Abstract: A novel single lithium-ion (Li-ion) conducting
polymer electrolyte is presented that is composed of the lithium
salt of a polyanion, poly[(4-styrenesulfonyl)(trifluorometh-
gradients of the salt and cell polarization, which causes
premature battery failure.
[15,16]
One of the best solutions to the above-mentioned prob-
lem is to prepare single Li-ion conductors (SLICs), in which
the anions are immobilized by anion trapping agents or by
yl(S-trifluoromethylsulfonylimino)sulfonyl)imide]
À
(
(
PSsTFSI ), and high-molecular-weight poly(ethylene oxide)
PEO). The neat LiPSsTFSI ionomer displays a low glass-
[
17–20]
fixing the anions to the polymeric backbones,
so that the
+
+
transition temperature (44.38C; that is, strongly plasticizing
transference number (tLi ) of Li cations is close to one. Until
effect). The complex of LiPSsTFSI/PEO exhibits a high Li-ion
transference number (tLi = 0.91) and is thermally stable up to
now, most of SLICs have been synthesized by grafting
+
À
[17]
common alkyl carboxylate (RCO )
and/or sulfonate
2
À
[18]
3
1
008C. Meanwhile, it exhibits a Li-ion conductivity as high as
.35 10 Scm at 908C, which is comparable to that for the
(RSO )
anions to the polymeric backbones. However,
3
À4
À1
the ion dissociation in polyether media is very limited, owing
to the low degrees of negative charge distribution in these
anions.
classic ambipolar LiTFSI/PEO SPEs at the same temperature.
These outstanding properties of the LiPSsTFSI/PEO blended
polymer electrolyte would make it promising as solid polymer
electrolytes for Li batteries.
[21]
Armand et al. have reported a new type of SLICs by
blending lithium poly[(4-styrenesulfonyl)(trifluoromethane-
sulfonyl)imide] (LiPSTFSI) with PEO. Owing to the
enhanced flexibility and improved negative charge distribu-
S
olid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) for solvent-free lithium
Li) rechargeable batteries have captured much attention
(
À)
À
(
tion of the ÀSO ÀN ÀSO ÀCF vs. common ÀCO and À
2
2
3
2
À
owing to their potential advantages, including safety, ease of
packaging, excellent flexibility and containment, and their
functioning as a separator compared with liquid or gel
SO structures, the relatively high ionic conductivity of about
3
À5
À1
10 Scm at 708C has been obtained for the blended
polymer electrolytes. Then, the conductivities were further
improved by elegantly preparing random and triblock
copolymers of LiPSTFSI through incorporating ethylene
[
1–8]
electrolytes.
To date, great progress has been made by
utilizing LiTFSI (Li[(CF SO ) N])/poly(ethylene oxide)
3
2 2
[22,23]
(
PEO) SPEs for Li/LiFePO batteries, which is being used
oxide (EO) units in side and main chains, respectively.
4
[
9]
as power source for an electric car, Autolib. However,
conventional SPEs formed by dissolving Li salt with a small
anion in a polymer host (usually high-molecular-weight
PEO), are dual-ion conductors, in which both cations and
A prototype Li battery using this triblock polymer electrolyte
exceeds a conventional battery based on a dual-ion polymer
electrolyte, suggesting the importance of single Li-ion nature
in improving the cycling performances. Inspired by these
results, we envisaged that it would be beneficial to further
enhance ionic conductivities of such imide anion-based SLICs
by increasing its negative charge distribution.
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10–14]
anions are mobile.
This would generate the concentration
Herein, we report a new type of single Li-ion conducting
polymer electrolytes, which are prepared by simply dissolving
lithium salt of a super-delocalized polyanion, namely poly[(4-
styrenesulfonyl)(trifluoromethyl(S-trifluooromethylsulfony-
[
*] Q. Ma, H. Zhang, C. Zhou, L. Zheng, P. Cheng, Prof. J. Nie,
Prof. W. Feng, Prof. Z. Zhou
Key Laboratory for Large-Format Battery Materials and System,
Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineer-
ing, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
À
limino)sulfonyl)imide] (PSsTFSI ; Scheme 1) in PEO. We
1
037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074 (China)
devised this kind of new anion structure on the base of
E-mail: zb-zhou@mail.hust.edu.cn
following consideration. Replacing a =O group in above À
(
À)
Prof. Y.-S. Hu, Prof. H. Li, Prof. X. Huang, Prof. L. Chen
Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New
Energy Materials and Devices, Beijing National Laboratory for
Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)
E-mail: yshu@aphy.iphy.ac.cn
SO ÀN ÀSO ÀCF structure by a strong electron-withdraw-
2
2
3
ing group, =NSO CF , can create much more delocalized
2
3
(À)
À
anion structure (ÀSO ÀN ÀSO(=NSO CF )ÀCF , sTFSI ),
2
2
3
3
+
in which the Li cations would be highly dissociated from this
super-delocalized anion when mixed with a polymer media
(
that is, PEO), so that conductivities can be further
Prof. M. Armand
CIC energigune, Alava Technology Park, Albert Einstein
[24]
improved.
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The procedures for preparing the monomeric and poly-
meric salts are detailed in the Supporting Information. The
structure and composition of the monomer (KSsTFSI),
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