Journal
REACTIVE & FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS
Volume 155, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2020.104683
Keywords
PEO:PANI solid polymer electrolyte; Iodide ion conductivity; Cation trapping; Conductivity enhancement; Dye sensitized solar cells
Funding
- National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka [NSF-PSF/ICRP/2017/EAICT/04]
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The ionic conductivity enhancement in solid polymer electrolytes due to introduction of polyaniline (PANI) conducting polymer is demonstrated using poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) based solid polymer electrolyte comprising tertapropylamonium iodide (Pr4NI) and iodine (I-2). The electrolyte with optimized composition has been characterized by ionic conductivity measurements, DC polarization test, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). About eight-fold increase in the ionic conductivity from 9.33 x 10(-6) Scm(-1) to 8.61 x 10(-5) Scm(-1) at room temperature was obtained by the addition of 1.5 wt% of PANI to the PEO solid polymer host. FTIR measurements suggest that Pr4N+ cations are able to coordinate not only with oxygen atoms of PEO, but also with nitrogen atoms of the PANI polymer effectively immobilizing or trapping the bulky Pr4N+ cations and promoting ionic dissociation. DSC studies show that PANI, also acting as a plasticizer, reduces the crystallinity of PEO and lower it's melting temperature. The DC polarization tests confirmed the increased iodide ion conductivity evidently mediated by PANI due to the combined effect of cation trapping and plasticizing. Solid state dye sensitized solar cells fabricated with optimized electrolyte composition incorporating PANI exhibited the highest energy con version efficiency of 5.01% compared to 3.52% for the DSSC without PANI.
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