An imidazolium based ionic liquid electrolyte for lithium batteries

✍ Scribed by Jae-Kwang Kim; Aleksandar Matic; Jou-Hyeon Ahn; Per Jacobsson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 346 KB
• Volume: 195
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7753
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2010.06.005

✦ Synopsis

An electrolyte for lithium batteries based on the ionic liquid 3-methy-1-propylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethysulfony)imide (PMIMTFSI) complexed with lithium bis(trifluoromethysulfony)imide (LiTFSI) at a molar ratio of 1:1 has been investigated. The electrolyte shows a high ionic conductivity (∼1.2 × 10 -3 S cm -1 ) at room temperature. Over the whole investigated temperature range the ionic conductivity is more than one order of magnitude higher than for an analogue electrolyte based on N-butyl-N-methyl-pyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (Py 14 TFSI) complexed with LiTFSI and used here as a benchmark. Raman results indicate furthermore that the degree of lithium coordinated TFSI is slightly lower in the electrolyte based on PMIMTFSI and thus that the Li + charge carriers should be higher than in electrolytes based on Py 14 TFSI. An ionic liquid gel electrolyte membrane was obtained by soaking a fibrous fully interconnected membrane, made of electrospun P(VdF-HFP), in the electrolyte. The gel electrolyte was cycled in Li/ionic liquid polymer electrolyte/Li cells over 15 days and in Li/LiFePO 4 cells demonstrating good interfacial stability and highly stable discharge capacities with a retention of >96% after 50 cycles (∼146 mAh g -1 ).