Electrochemical and physicochemical properties of small phosphonium cation ionic liquid electrolytes with high lithium salt content

G. M.A. Girard, M. Hilder, H. Zhu, D. Nucciarone, K. Whitbread, S. Zavorine, M. Moser, M. Forsyth, D. R. Macfarlane, P. C. Howlett*

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Abstract

Electrolytes of a room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL), trimethyl(isobutyl)phosphonium (P111i4) bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (FSI) with a wide range of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) salt concentrations (up to 3.8 mol kg-1 of salt in the RTIL) were characterised using a combination of techniques including viscosity, conductivity, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). We show that the FSI-based electrolyte containing a high salt concentration (e.g. 1:1 salt to IL molar ratio, equivalent to 3.2 mol kg-1 of LiFSI) displays unusual transport behavior with respect to lithium ion mobility and promising electrochemical behavior, despite an increase in viscosity. These electrolytes could compete with the more traditionally studied nitrogen-based ionic liquids (ILs) in lithium battery applications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8706-8713
Number of pages8
JournalPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume17
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Apr 2015
Externally publishedYes

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