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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 37, Issue 23, Pages 8699-8702Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma040067x
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Polymer electrolytes based on poly(bis(methoxyethoxyethoxy)phosphazene) (MEEP) exhibit some of the highest room temperature ionic conductivities reported in a single-phase system. The mechanism of ionic transport in polymer electrolytes, particularly the nature of the charge-carrying species, has been poorly understood at the molecular level. Vibrational spectroscopy is used to determine the nature and relative amounts of ionic species present in MEEP-LiCF3SO3 as a function of salt concentration. The composition corresponding to the conductivity maximum is completely dominated by neutral cation-anion contact ion pairs and the triple anion species, {Li(CF3SO3)(2)}(-). Furthermore, the conductivity changes only slightly at higher salt concentrations where triple cations dominate. These data require a dissociation-reassociation mechanism of ion transport in which dynamic equilibrium is established between the various ionically associated species by exchange of individual Li+ and CF3SO3- ions. The individual ions migrate between associated ionic species through the liquidlike domains defined by the entangled ethylene oxide side chains.
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