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In this study, the effect of location, wettability, and thickness of the hydrophilic layer and also the effect of microporous layer MPL thickness on the dynamic water transport in the gas diffusi We then estimate a drift velocity of B. Further questions result that the drift velocity can be written in terms of a universal function of NE. Our numerical results see Fig.

Several questions have been raised by the results 5 indicate that for N 1 and E 1,the drift velocity u presented in this paper. We have not formulated a sim- turn follows from the universality of the Edwards model ple scaling argument to rationalize this correction to for long polymers. Thus we expect that such scaling leading scaling.

No such corrections are found in the ex- should hold for any polymer in a network provided that act results for the diffusion constant obtained by van it is sufficiently flexible, and that the network is Leeuwen and Kooiman [8 —11] by analytical solution of sufficiently coarse for the chain to be described by an Ed- the repton model with periodic boundary conditions.

We wards model at the pore scale. The repton model satisfies speculate that this correction to leading scaling arises due this requirement, and by the use of numerical simula- to stress relaxation at the ends of the polymer, and that tions, we have been able to show that one-parameter scal- the different treatment of the ends of the polymer causes ing holds for the drift velocity. Note that N in the repton model corresponds to troduced into the model, but it is not clear if this would the molecular weight in units of the entanglement molec- be sufficient to change the universality class to that of ular weight in a polymer melt.

Perhaps this type of biased reptation. Szleifer for communicating the results in original version of the biased reptation model for Ref. Computer time network. An interesting question is what modification was provided by the Cornell National Supercomputer Fa- could be made to the repton model to obtain this cility. Rubinstein, Phys.

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Viovy, and A. Defontaines, J. Semenov, Biopoly- France I 1, I France 1, Heller, T. Duke, and J. Viovy, Biopolymers to [8] J. Kooiman, Physica A , 79 be published. Doi and S. Kooiman and J. Alexander, J. Paris 38, ; P. Pincus, Macromolecules 9, Kooiman, Ph. Allyl glycidyl ether, polymd. This allows the extent of isomerization to be reduced to essentially zero under either melt or soln. The influence of interface polarization on the determination of lithium transference numbers of salt in polyethylene oxide electrolytes.

Acta , , 21 — 29 , DOI: Elsevier Ltd. Li transference nos. The authors compare the commonly used evaluation technique with the authors' approach. Here, the focus is laid on the potential relaxation of the polarized sample which delivers information about the salt diffusion and the potential distribution in sym. The new approach circumvents the known initial current issue and thus increases the reliability of the expt.

The highest Li transference nos. X-ray anal. The lithium ion cond. This value is as large as that of Li3N which is well known to exhibit the highest lithium ion cond. A lithium superionic conductor. Nature Publishing Group.

Batteries are a key technol. They are used to power elec. However, such batteries require relatively stringent safety precautions, making large-scale systems complicated and expensive. Here, the authors report a Li superionic conductor, Li10GeP2S12 that has a new 3-dimensional framework structure.

It exhibits an extremely high Li ionic cond. This represents the highest cond. This new solid-state battery electrolyte has many advantages in terms of device fabrication facile shaping, patterning and integration , stability non-volatile , safety non-explosive and excellent electrochem. Fast lithium ion conduction in garnet-type Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O Angewandte Chemie International ed.

ACS Appl. Interfaces , 10 26 , — , DOI: Zhang, Wenbo; Richter, Felix H. All-solid-state batteries ASSBs show great potential for providing high power and energy densities with enhanced battery safety. While new solid electrolytes SEs have been developed with high enough ionic conductivities, SSBs with long operational life are still rarely reported. Therefore, on the way to high-performance and long-life ASSBs, a better understanding of the complex degrdn. In this work, multiple characterization methods are combined to better understand the processes that occur at the LiCoO2 cathode and the Li10GeP2S12 solid electrolyte interface.

Indium and Li4Ti5O12 are used as anode materials to avoid the instability problems assocd. Capacity fading and increased impedances are obsd. Postmortem anal. These results suggest that the development of electrochem. Visualizing plating-induced cracking in lithium-anode solid-electrolyte cells. James; Bruce, Peter G. Nature Portfolio. Lithium dendrite filament propagation through ceramic electrolytes, leading to short circuits at high rates of charge, is one of the greatest barriers to realizing high-energy-d.

Utilizing in situ X-ray computed tomog. On plating, cracking initiates with spallation, conical pothole-like cracks that form in the ceramic electrolyte near the surface with the plated electrode. The spallations form predominantly at the lithium electrode edges where local fields are high.

Transverse cracks then propagate from the spallations across the electrolyte from the plated to the stripped electrode. Lithium ingress drives the propagation of the spallation and transverse cracks by widening the crack from the rear; i. As a result, cracks traverse the entire electrolyte before the Li arrives at the other electrode, and therefore before a short circuit occurs.

Energy Mater. Dendrite growth and crack propagation are two major hurdles on the road towards the large-scale commercialization of lithium metal all-solid-state batteries ASSBs.

Due to the high multiphysics coupled nature of the underlying dendrite growth mechanism, understanding it has been difficult. Herein, for the first time, an electrochem. Results reveal that overpotential-driven stress propels a crack to penetrate through the solid electrolyte, creating vacancies for dendrite growth, leading to the short circuit of the battery. A larger toughness value hinders the crack propagation and mitigates the Li dendrite growth.

The developed multiphysics model provides an in-depth understanding of the coupling of crack propagation and dendrite growth within ASSBs and an insightful mechanistic design guidance map for robust and safe ASSB cells. Undesired reactions at the interface between a transition metal oxide cathode and a nonaq. These challenges are esp.

The ongoing push to increase the energy d. This goal requires a combination of deep knowledge of the mechanisms underpinning reactivity, and the ability to assemble multifunctional electrode systems where different components synergistically extend cycle life by imparting interfacial stability, while maintaining, or even increasing, capacity and potential of operation.

The barriers toward energy storage at high d. Therefore, their relevance is broad and the quest for solns. In this Account, we describe mechanisms of reaction that can degrade the interface between a Li-ion battery electrolyte and the cathode, based on an oxide with transition metals that can reach high formal oxidn.

The focus is placed on cathodes that deliver high capacity and operate at high potential because their development would enable Li-ion battery technologies with high capacity for energy storage.

Electrode-electrolyte instabilities will be identified beyond the intrinsic potential windows of stability, by linking them to the electroactive transition metals present at the surface of the electrode. These instabilities result in irreversible transformations at these interfaces, with formation of insulating layers that impede transport or material loss due to corrosion.

As a result, strategies that screen the reactive surface of the oxide, while reducing the transition metal content by introducing inactive ions emerge as a logical means toward interfacial stability. Yet they must be implemented in the form of thin passivating barriers to avoid unacceptable losses in storage capacity.

This Account subsequently describes our current ability to build composite structures that include the active material and phases designed to address deleterious reactions. We will discuss emerging strategies that move beyond the application of such barriers on premade agglomerated powders of the material of interest. The need for these strategies will be rationalized by the goal to effectively passivate all interfaces while fully controlling the chem. Such outcomes would successfully minimize interfacial losses, thereby leading to materials that exceed the charge storage and life capabilities possible today.

Practically speaking, it would create opportunities to design batteries that break the existing barriers of energy d. Hybrid electrolytes for lithium metal batteries. Power Sources , , — , DOI: This perspective article discusses the most recent developments in the field of hybrid electrolytes, here referred to electrolytes composed of two, well-defined ion-conducting phases, for high energy d.

The two phases can be both solid, as e. In this latter case, they are referred as quasi-solid hybrid electrolytes. Techniques for the appropriate characterization of hybrid electrolytes are discussed emphasizing the importance of ionic conduction and interfacial properties.

On this view, multilayer systems are also discussed in more detail. Investigations on Lewis acid-base interactions, activation energies for lithium-ion transfer between the phases, and the formation of an interphase between the components are reviewed and analyzed. The application of different hybrid electrolytes in lithium metal cells with various cathode compns.

Fabrication methods for the feasibility of large-scale applications are briefly analyzed and different cell designs and configurations, which are most suitable for the integration of hybrid electrolytes, are detd. Finally, the specific energy of cells contg. Merrill, Laura C. Single-ion-conducting polymer electrolytes are attractive to use in lithium batteries as the transference no. This helps prevent concn.

The addn. Here, a single-ion-conducting polymer electrolyte is blended with lithium-conducting oxide ceramic particles to make a composite electrolyte. This electrolyte is studied in comparison to a composite electrolyte contg. It is found that the addn. The electrolytes are cycled in lithium sym. Our findings shed light on how to optimize the polymer host chem.

Macromolecules , 44 11 , — , DOI: Using broadband dielec. We demonstrate that temp. We show that the strength of the decoupling correlates with the steepness of the temp. We ascribe the obsd. We speculate that employment of more fragile polymers might lead to design of polymers with higher ionic cond. Wang, Yangyang; Agapov, Alexander L. American Physical Society. We present detailed studies of the relationship between ionic cond.

The anal. These results call for a revision of the current picture of ionic transport in polymer electrolytes. We relate the obsd. Macromolecules , 40 13 , — , DOI: The relationship between ionic cond. We focus on lamellar samples with poly ethylene oxide PEO vol.

Surprisingly, the cond. Tuning anhydrous proton conduction in single-ion polymers by crystalline ion channels. Nature communications , 9 1 , ISSN:. The synthesis of high-conductivity solid-state electrolyte materials with eliminated polarization loss is a great challenge. Here we show a promising potential of single-ion block copolymers with crystalline protogenic channels as efficient proton conductors.

Through the self-organization of zwitterion, imidazole, and polystyrene sulfonate with controlled dipolar interactions therein, the distance between neighboring proton donors and acceptors in ionic crystals, as well as the dipolar orientation in nanoscale ionic phases was precisely tuned.

This allowed a markedly high static dielectric constant comparable to water and fast structural diffusion of protons with a low potential barrier for single-ion polymers. The optimized sample exhibited a high proton diffusion coefficient of 2. Macromolecules , 27 25 , — , DOI: Lascaud, S. New alkali metal salts capable of forming ionic complexes with poly ethylene oxide PEO have been prepd. This allowed, for the first time, a study of the Tg-compn.

Over this range, cation charge d. This feature, which is caused by the depletion of the free EO units, is evidenced by a sigmoidal decrease in the reduced molar cond.

The study is of interest with respect to development of all-solid Li rechargeable batteries. Ion transport mechanisms in salt-doped polymerized zwitterionic electrolytes. Polyzwitterions polyZIs , macromols. Within both motifs, the counterion of the pendant-end ZI moiety shows higher mobility.

However, the mobility of counter charges to the backbone-adjacent ZI moiety is shown to be correlated with a cage relaxation time, which incorporates the combined effects of frustrated motion due to the presence of the polymer backbone and pendant-end ZI moiety and the higher mobility in a population of lightly ZI-coordinated ions. Novel conducting solid polymer electrolytes with a zwitterionic structure boosting ionic conductivity and retarding lithium dendrite formation.

Suppressing the anionic mobility in solid polymer electrolytes SPEs is crucial to mitigate the ionic cond. The hydrogen bonding and ion-dipole interactions in the DN-PF-LCP CSPE provide nanosized self-agglomeration of anions and provide interaction between anions and their structurally homologous matrix, thus impeding the mobility of anions and lithium dendritic growth.

C , 33 , — , DOI: Polymer electrolytes are considered as the good candidates for the new-generation-safe lithium-ion battery. Herein, a free-standing and flexible polymer electrolyte film based on a lithium-contg. PIL was constructed with and without propylene carbonate PC by in-situ photopolymn. In this system, the lithium-contg. IL synthesized by equimol. The ion-dipole interaction between the lithium ion and the polar solvent PC can further improve the lithium-ion conduction, resulting in a comparable ionic cond.