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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 2313-2319Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00798
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We show that strong cation-anion interactions in a wide range of lithium-salt/ionic liquid mixtures result in a negative lithium transference number, using molecular dynamics simulations and rigorous concentrated solution theory. This behavior fundamentally deviates from that obtained using self-diffusion coefficient analysis and explains well recent experimental electrophoretic nuclear magnetic resonance measurements, which account for ion correlations. We extend these findings to several ionic liquid compositions. We investigate the degree of spatial ionic coordination employing single-linkage cluster analysis, unveiling asymmetrical anion-cation clusters. We formulate a way to compute the effective lithium charge and show that lithium-containing clusters carry a negative charge over a remarkably wide range of compositions and concentrations. This finding has significant implications for the overall performance of battery cells based on ionic liquid electrolytes. It also provides a rigorous prediction recipe and design protocol for optimizing transport properties in next-generation highly correlated electrolytes.
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