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Solid-state Graft Copolymer Electrolytes for Lithium Battery Applications
Published on: August 12, 2013
Development of many-body polarizable force fields for Li-battery applications: 2. LiTFSI-doped Oligoether, polyether,
1Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. borodin@eng.utah.edu
Abstract:
A quantum chemistry study of Li(+) interactions with ethers, carbonates, alkanes, and a trifluoromethanesulfonylimide anion (TFSI(-)) was performed at the MP2, B3LYP, and HF levels using the aug-cc-pvDz basis set for solvents and TFSI(-) anion, and [8s4p3d/5s3p2d]-type basis set for Li. A classical many-polarizable force field was developed for the LiTFSI salt interacting with ethylene carbonate (EC), gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), dimethyl carbonate (DMC), acetone, oligoethers, n-alkanes, and perfluoroalkanes. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed for EC/LiTFSI, PC/LiTFSI, GBL/LiTFSI, DMC/LiTFSI, 1,2-dimethoxyethane/LiTFSI, pentaglyme/LiTFSI, and poly(ethylene oxide) (MW = 2380)/LiTFSI electrolytes at temperatures from 298 to 423 K and salt concentrations from 0.3 to 5 M. The ion and solvent self-diffusion coefficients, electrolyte conductivity, electrolyte density, LiTFSI apparent molar volumes, and structure of the Li(+) cation environment predicted by MD simulations were found in good agreement with experimental data.
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