Novel polymer/salt hybrid composed of comblike organoboron polymer electrolyte and boron-stabilized imido anion
Novel polymer/salt hybrid composed of comblike organoboron polymer electrolyte and boron-stabilized imido anion
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DOI:
10.1021/ma047469p
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发表时间:
2005-03-22
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5.5
通讯作者:
Ohno, H
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作者:
Matsumi, N;Nakashiba, M;Ohno, H
Strong coordination of ether oxygen toward lithium ion generally prevents PEO derivatives from exhibiting high selectivity for cation transport. Such features of PEO derivatives are undesirable in view of achieving not only high energy density but also reliable performance of systems, since such biionic systems generate potential gradients within the electrolyte matrix so that the inner voltage of devices is offset. Because of such inadequate cationic conductivity of polyether derivatives, molecular design of single ion conductive polymers has been widely examined. 1 Such materials are typically obtained by immobilizing the anion onto the polymer electrolyte matrix. A number of materials called “polymer-salt hybrids” have been thus developed so far. Although immobilization of the anion decreases the carrier ion number and leads to lower ionic conductivity, improved ionic conductivity has been attained by employing highly dissociable salt structure. 2 As highly dissociable lithium salts based on a stabilized imido anion, LiTFSI and LiBETI have been widely used as salt additives in polymer electrolytes. 3 In these salts, imido anions are highly stabilized via the resonance effect on sulfonyl groups. Therefore, sulfonamide and sulfonimide structure had been an attractive component for highly conductive polymer/salt hybrids. 2 As a different approach for the stabilization of imido anion, herein is proposed the molecular design of boronstabilized imido anion via the neutralization reaction of iminoborane. Generally, boron atom is capable of stabilizing its adjacent anion similar to a carbonyl group. 4 Making use of this chemistry, we have recently reported bulk ionic conductivity of boron-stabilized carbanions. 5 It is more commonly known that a lone pair electron of the nitrogen atom strongly flows into the vacant p-orbital of the adjacent boron atom (pπ-pπ interaction; Figure 1). 6 Therefore, incorporation of the boron atom adjacent to imido anion appears to be a promising method to create a novel class of nonhalogenated salts showing a high degree of dissociation.In recent years, we have been studying synthesis of organoboron main-chain polymer electrolytes7 and their ion conductive properties. Taking advantage of hydroboration polymerization, 8 a variety of ion conductive matrixes such as boric ester type polymer, alkylborane type polymer, comblike polymer, borane-imidazole complex, and organoboron polymer molten salts were prepared. We have also reported some lithium borate