Effect of Molecular Weight on the Ion Transport Mechanism in Polymerized Ionic Liquids

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• 作者：Fei Fan ; Weiyu Wang ; Adam P. Holt ; Hongbo Feng ; David Uhrig ; Xinyi Lu ; Tao Hong ; Yangyang Wang ; Nam-Goo Kang ; Jimmy Mays ; Alexei P. Sokolov
• 刊名：Macromolecules
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 28, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：49
• 期：12
• 页码：4557-4570
• 全文大小：848K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5835

文摘

The unique properties of ionic liquids (ILs) have made them promising candidates for electrochemical applications. Polymerization of the corresponding ILs results in a new class of materials called polymerized ionic liquids (PolyILs). Though PolyILs offer the possibility to combine the high conductivity of ILs and the high mechanical strength of polymers, their conductivities are typically much lower than that of the corresponding small molecule ILs. In the present work, seven PolyILs were synthesized having degrees of polymerization ranging from 1 to 333, corresponding to molecular weights (MW) from 482 to 160 400 g/mol. Depolarized dynamic light scattering, broadband dielectric spectroscopy, rheology, and differential scanning calorimetry were employed to systematically study the influence of MW on the mechanism of ionic transport and segmental dynamics in these materials. The modified Walden plot analysis reveals that the ion conductivity transforms from being closely coupled with structural relaxation to being strongly decoupled from it as MW increases.