Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 31, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202009263
Keywords
battery; conjugated polymer; ion transport; rate performance; side chain
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [CBET-1604666, 1604682]
- Welch Foundation for Chemical Research [C-1888]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1604682] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The study shows that by incorporating ethylene glycol side chains, the electrochemical performance of conjugated polymer electrodes can be significantly improved, especially in thick electrodes, demonstrating higher rate performance and capacity. This work provides a pathway for enhancing the rate of ion transport in conjugated polymers and improving the performance and capacity of conjugated-polymer-based electrodes.
Conjugated polymers are attractive for energy storage but typically require significant amounts of conductive additives to successfully operate with thin electrodes. Here, side-chain engineering is used to improve the electrochemical performance of conjugated polymer electrodes. Naphthalene dicarboximide (NDI)-based conjugated polymers with ion-conducting ethylene glycol (EG) side chains (PNDI-T2EG) and non-ion-conducting 2-octyldodecyl side chains (PNDI-T2) are synthesized, tested, and compared. For thick (20 mu m, 1.28 mg cm(-2)) electrodes with a 60 wt% polymer, the PNDI-T2EG electrodes exhibit 66% of the theoretical capacity at an ultrafast charge-discharge rate of 100C (72 s per cycle), while the PNDI-T2 electrodes exhibit only 23% of the theoretical capacity. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements on thin (5 mu m, 0.32 mg cm(-2)), high-polymer-content (80 wt%) electrodes reveal that PNDI-T2EG exhibits much higher lithium-ion diffusivity (DLi+ = 7.01 x 10(-12) cm(2) s(-1)) than PNDI-T2 (DLi+ = 3.96 x 10(-12) cm(2) s(-1)). PNDI-T2EG outperforms most previously reported materials in thick, high-polymer-content electrodes in terms of rate performance. The results demonstrate that the rate performance and capacity are significantly improved through the incorporation of EG side chains, and this work demonstrates a route for increasing the rate of ion transport in conjugated polymers and improving the performance and capacity of conjugated-polymer-based electrodes.
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