Nanophase separated,grafted alternate copolymer styrene-maleic anhydride as an efficient room temperature solid state lithium ion conductor

All solid-state lithium metal batteries(ASSLMBs)based on polymer solid electrolyte and lithium metal anode have attracted much attention due to their high energy density and intrinsic safety.However,the low ionic conductivity at room temperature and poor mechanical properties of the solid polymer electrolyte result in increased polarization and poor cycling stability of the Li metal batteries.In order to improve the ionic conductivity at room temperature while maintaining mechanical strength,we combine the conductivity of short chain polyethylene oxide(PEO)and strength of styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer(SMA)to obtain a grafted block copolymer with nanophase separation structure,which has room temperature ionic conductivity up to 1.14×10^(-4)S/cm and tensile strength up to 1.4 MPa.Li||Li symmetric cell can work stably for more than 1500 h under the condition of 0.1 mA/cm^(2).Li||LiFePO_(4)full cells can deliver a high capacity of 151.4 mAh/g at 25℃and 0.2 C/0.2 C charge/discharge conditions,showing 85.6%capacity retention after 400 cycles.Importantly,the all solid state Li||LiFePO_(4)pouch cell shows excellent safety performance under different abuse conditions.These results demonstrate that the nanophase separated,grafted alternate copolymer electrolyte has huge potential for application in Li metal batteries.

Biomimetic brain-like nanostructures for solid polymer electrolytes with fast ion transport

The intrinsic drawbacks of electrolytes and the growth of lithium dendrites limit the development of commercial lithium batteries.To address the aforementioned challenges,a novel biomimetic brain-like nanostructure(BBLN)solid polymer electrolyte was created by manipulating the shape of the incorporated nanoparticles.Our designed BBLN solid polymer electrolyte was created by incorporating spherical core-shell(UIO-66@67)fillers into polymer electrolyte,which is significantly different from traditional polymer-based composite electrolytes.UIO-66@67 spherical nanoparticles are highly favorable to eliminating polymer electrolyte stress and deformation during solidification,indicating a great potential for fabricating highly uniform BBLN solid polymer electrolytes with a substantial number of continuous convolutions.Furthermore,spherical nanoparticles can significantly reduce the crystalline structure of polymer electrolytes,improving polymer chain segmental movement and providing continuous pathways for rapid ion transfer.As a result,BBLN solid polymer electrolyte shows excellent ionic conductivity(9.2×10^(−4)S cm^(−1)),a high lithium transference number(0.74),and outstanding cycle stability against lithium electrodes over 6500 h at room temperature.The concept of biomimetic brain-like nanostructures in this work demonstrates a novel strategy to enhance ion transport in polymerbased electrolytes for solid-state batteries.