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Abstract
An ionically conductive ion-containing gel having a bulk ionic conductivity at 20 DEG C and 10 KHz greater than 10<-4> Siemens/cm and a dynamic modulus at 10 Hz greater than 10<3> Pa, consists of a minor amount of a crystallisable polymer, a major amount of an organic compound that is not a solvent for the polymer at 20 DEG C, and a salt soluble in said compound at 20 DEG C and dissolved therein at a concentration greater than 4 % by mass based on said compound. The crystallisable polymer may be a polyamide, polyester, polyether or substituted polyolefin. The organic compound may be an amide, e.g. a tertiary amide, a sulphoxide or an ether. The salt is preferably of an alkali metal or of an optionally substituted ammonium with a monovalent anion, e.g. lithium trifluoromethane sulphonate. The gel can be used as an electrolyte in galvanic cells.
Description
IONICALLY CONDUCTIVE POLYMER GELS
This invention relates to bulk lonically conductive polymer gels and their preparation, and to galvanic cells containing them.
The most commonly used electrolytes are fluid liquids which comprise solutions in a liquid solvent of solute ionic species.
Such fluid liquid electrolytes, on incorporation into a galvanic cell, permit migration of ions between the electrodes of the cell and, as a consequence, the provision of electric free energy to a closed external circuit. Despite their widespread use, such electrolytes nonetheless suffer from several disadvantages.
Thus, they are often corrosive, leading to leakage from cells and they do not provide a firm barrier between the electrodes when required to assist in stabilising the inter-electrode distance and in preventing physical loss of electrode material from the electrode surface.
In order, in part, to overcome the disadvantages inherent in fluid liquid electrolytes, particularly in relation to galvanic cells, considerable effort has been expended in attempts to provide solid or highly viscous polymeric electrolytes which contain salts which display mobility, under appropriate conditions, of at least some of the ionic species present. The solid polymeric electrolytes are capable of acting in thin film form as electrode separators and in solid-state cells can deform while maintaining good contact with the electrodes, thus minimising problems arising from mechanical strain arising either from mechanical stresses during use or volume changes during the charge/discharge cycle.A particular area of importance is in cells that do not depend upon water as a component of the electrolyte, such as lithium cells where water and other materials capable of reacting with lithium are undesirable. The potential uses for such materials are not limited to batteries but include, inter alia, sensor devices and thermoelectric energy convectors.
A prominent polymeric material for this purpose has been poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), in which certain salts are soluble and can form complexes. The electrical and mechanical properties of such polymer electrolyte materials, although encouraging, require further enhancement before commercialisation can be envisaged. Improvements in the properties have been obtained using graft copolymers in which short poly(ethylene oxide) chains are present as pendant units attached to a long main chain. Such materials have been described in GB-A-2161488. Another means of improving the mechanical properties is to use block copolymers in which short poly(ethylene oxide) chains alternate with other units such as polysiloxane. Yet another means is to cross-link a polycethylene oxide) with an epoxy compound.In each case the polymer electrolyte contains a suitable salt complexed with the polymer to provide the ionic species required for conductivity.
In all these cases the conductivities reported at 250C or at room temperature are at best about 10-4 Siemens per cm. These values are an order of magnitude less than a commonly cited target for commercial realisation of 10-3 Siemens per cm.
It is also possible to provide polymer electrolytes which consist of a mixture of a polymer, preferably of high molecular weight, with a compound of low molecular weight that is a solvent for the polymer in the range of temperatures in which the electrolyte is to be used, together with an appropriate salt that is soluble in the polymer and in the compound of low molecular weight. For example, as disclosed in GB-A-2212504 and 2216132, polymer electrolytes consisting of poly-N,N-dimethylacrylamide or closely related poly-N-substituted acrylamide of high molecular weight plasticised with dimethylacetamide together with lithium trifluoromethane sulphonate (lithium triflate) as the salt component have been evaluated and found to exhibit good conductivities together with good mechanical properties.These polymer electrolytes are gel-like in character, but the compound of low molecular weight must not exceed a certain limiting concentration above which the system loses its gel-like character and begins to flow. The ionic conductivity is higher at the higher concentrations of the compound of low molecular weight, but the material becomes increasingly more flexible.
Conductivities of 7 x l0-3Scm-1 at 200C are obtainable but this requires at least 60Z or more of the low molecular weight compound and at this level the mechanical properties are poor.
It has proved possible by cross-lInking the polymer to improve the mechanical properties to a useful level with as much as 80% of the low molecular weight compound present, and thus to obtain conductivities at 200C exceeding 10#3Scm-1. These products may prove of commercial interest, but the process for making the cross-linked polymer electrolyte film is somewhat complex for convenient incorporation into a process for cell manufacture.
This invention seeks to provide ionically conductive materials that provide high bulk ionic conductivities at ambient temperature together with good mechanical properties.
According to one aspect of the invention there is provided an ionically conductive, ion-containing gel having a bulk ionic conductivity at 200 and 10 kHz greater than 10-4 Siemens per centimetre and a dynamic modulus at 10 Hz greater than 103pea, preferably greater than 104Pa, e.g. > 105Pa, wherein the gel consists of a minor amount of a crystallisable polymer such as a polyester, a major amount of an organic compound that is a solvent for a salt at 200C but is not a solvent for the crystallisable polymer at 20 C, and a salt dissolved in the organic compound at a concentration greater than 4% by mass based on the organic compound.The said minor amount is up to 50% by mass, preferably up to 40%, e.g. at least 5X such as at least 10%, typically 20-30%.
The ion-containing gels of this invention can provide better ionic conductivities both at ambient and elevated temperatures than polymer electrolytes based on polymer-salt complexes previously described and better mechanical properties than polymer electrolytes of good ionic conductivity based on polymer-salt-plasticising solvent complexes previously described.
The ion-containing gels of this invention can normally be regarded as thermoreversible gels in which the junctions are physical associations, possibly corresponding with crystal structures comprising only a small portion of the polymer chains.
The crystallisable polymer may Itself be capable of complexing with the salt through containing, for example, ether or amide groups, but It is not essential that the crystallisable polymer should dissolve or complex with the salt. This contrasts with previously described ion-conducting electrolyte systems based upon polymers where it has been essential that the polymer should dissolve or complex the salt and desirable that the polymer should be non-crystallisable.
Suitable crystallisable polymers for use in this invention include crystallisable polyesters such as polyCethylene terephthalate), poly(l,4-6utylene terephthalate) and poly(3 oxybutanoate), crystallisable polyamides such as polychexa- methylene adipamide) and poly(m-phenylene isophthalamide), crystallisable polyethers and crystallisable substituted (e.g.
halo) polyolefins such as substituted polyvinylidenes. Further examples include polyhydroxybutyric acid, poly(metaxylylene adipamide), poly(vinylidene fluoride), polyoxymethylene and polyoxyethylene. The crystallisable polymer is normally dissolved at a high temperature in the other components and can provide the required mechanical rigidity for the product at lower temperatures. If inadequate crystallisable polymer is present, the mechanical properties and dimensional stability will suffer.
The crystallisable polymer is preferably of a sufficiently high molecular weight to form coherent films and fibres. In general, the higher the molecular weight of the polymer, the better the mechanical properties of the gel structure formed and the lower the concentration of the polymer required to maintain a gel structure, and the lower the concentration of polymer, the higher the conductivity.
Suitable organic compounds that are solvents for a salt at 200C but are not solvents for the crystallisable polymer at 20 C include amides (preferably tertiary amides) which may be cyclic such as dimethyl formamide, dimethyl acetamide,
N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone and N-formyl piperidine, sulphoxides and ethers (preferably polyfunctional) such as the dimethyl ethers of diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol and tetraethylene glycol.
Mixtures of such compounds may also be used. Where its more modest oxidation-reduction stability Is adequate, the solvent organic compound may be dimethyl sulphoxide. It will be understood that these compounds do become solvents for the crystallisable polymer at some temperature above 200C, e.g. above 1000C or above 1500C. For use in batteries it is preferable that the organic compounds should be free from chemical groups that can react with electrode components. Thus for lithium batteries the organic compounds should not contain hydroxyl groups and should be as free of water as possible.
Suitable salts include alkali metal salts such as salts of lithium, sodium or potassium and substituted or unsubstituted ammonium. Lithium is particularly preferred because of the high solubility of many lithium salts in suitable organic compounds and the importance of lithium as an electrode material. The counterbalancing anion is preferably large and preferably a weak conjugate base.Examples include the monovalent anions derived from higher halogens and pseudohalogens, for example Bur', I- and SCN and complex Inorganic, carboxylic and sulphonic, preferably perfluorinated alkyl carboxylic and sulphonic, monovalent anions, for example C104-, , HgI3#, , BF4#, , CF3COO- , and CF3S03-. The concentration of salt based in the organic compound should be greater than 4% by weight and is limited at the upper end of the range by a saturation solubility of the salt in the organic compound in the presence of the polymer.The salt is preferably present in the gel structure at a concentration such that it does not exceed its saturation solubility throughout the proposed temperature range of use. Hence, for each combination of organic compound and salt and intended temperature there is an optimum concentration of salt for the highest conductivities to be obtained.
Gels according to this invention may be prepared by forming a solution of the polymer in the organic compound at above 200C (preferably above 1000C such as above 1500C), incorporating the salt into the solution either by addition after it has been formed or simultaneously or preferably by solution in the organic compound before the addition of the polymer, then cooling the solution. Such cooling will be understood to be to a temperature below the critical solution temperature of the polymer in the mixture of the organic compound and the salt.
The present invention also provides a galvanic cell wherein the electrolyte comprises an ionically conductive gel as herein defined; and a battery of such cells.
EXAMPLES
The following Examples illustrate the invention.
TEST METHODS
CELL PREPARATION AND MEASUREMENT OF IONIC CONDUCTIVITY Gel samples were re-heated until they melted and then cast on to a stainless steel (ion-blocking) electrode. A second stainless steel electrode was rapidly brought into contact with the gel so that the gel was sandwiched between the electrodes and good contact with both electrodes was achieved. The contact area A and electrolyte thickness t were accurately known; in all cases A was 1.0 cm2 and t was in the range 0.86-1.69mm.
The prepared cell was then immediately transferred to the chamber in which the conductivity measurements were carried out, which was flooded with dry nitrogen to present exposure of the cell to the atmosphere. Brass plates were used to provide electrical contact with both electrodes. The temperature of the sample was controlled by passing the dry nitrogen over a heat exchanger before it entered the chamber; a thermocouple positioned near to the cell was used to monitor the temperature, which was controlled by a Eurotherm temperature control unit.
A Solartron 1250 frequency response analyser and latterly a
Schlumberger 1260 Impedance/gal n-phase analyser were used to measure the complex admittance of the cell in the frequency range 0.1 Hz to 63 kHz. Due to the blocking nature of the electrodes, the real part of the admittance rose with frequency to a plateau.
The bulk gel electrolyte resistance Rb was calculated from the frequency-independent plateau observed in the real part of the admittance at frequencies above around 10 kHz. The ionic conductivity a was then calculated from the expression
1 t
α = - X
Rb A
Measurement of Gel Modulus
Gel electrolytes were cast into discs of diameter 25 mm and thickness approximately 2 mm ('0.3mum). These discs were placed between parallel circular disc platens of 25 mm diameter in a
Rheometrics Dynamic Spectrometer RDS2, at ambient temperature (180C to 230C) in a nitrogen atmosphere, and squeezed under an axial load up to 1 kg to the measurement thickness H.
Two mechanical measurements were made: 1) Dynamic Modulus G1
One of the disc platens oscillates sinusoidally about its cylindrical axis of symmetry with an applied shear strain amplitude. Shear strain is measured at the circumference, or maximum radius R, using the maximum sine wave (zero to peak) angular displacement e, such that
Strain H The in-phase component of the measured sinusoidal shear stress is used to determine the dynamic modulus G1. First, therefore, stress is obtained from the torque or couple measured at the opposite platen using the formula:
Stress = torque x 2000 x 98.07 (Pa) sr x R3 (with torque in gram centimetres). Then
stress x cos6
G1 = strain where 6 is the phase lag between the stress and strain sine waves.
G1 was measured for frequencies between 0.016 Hz and 79.6 Hz.
Values of G1 may increase slightly with frequency and are quoted for 17. shear strain and 10 Hz frequency.
2) Relaxation Modulus G(t)
Using the same geometry, a step shear strain of 1% is applied. The stress then decays from its maximum as a function of time.
step strain ~ H where + is a fixed angular displacement.
The relaxation modulus is then given by G(t) stress
step strain where stress is the same as above.
The modulus G(t) is stated for 1% strain after a relaxation time of 100 seconds.
Example 1 - PET-NMP
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP) was dried over a molecular sieve. Lithium trifluoromethanesulphonate CF3SO3Li (lithium triflate) was dried over phosphorous pentoxide for 48h.
Poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET) chips, of intrinsic viscosity 0.96 dl/g (1% in dichloroacetic acid at 250C) were dried at 120cho for 4h under reduced pressure.
To 9.0g of molecular-sieve-dried N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone were added 1.0g of dried poly(ethylene terephthalate) chips and 1.18g dried lithium triflate, all in a dried glass sample tube.
The tube was sealed and transferred to a silicone oil both at 2000C. The contents were stirred intermittently and heated until the chips dissolved completely, which occurred at a bath temperature of about 2150C. The solution was then allowed to cool to room temperature. During cooling, the solution ceased to flow and solidified to a gel.
The gel was reheated until it flowed and was then cast under dry conditions in liquid form on to one of the electrodes of the frequency response analyser system. It was sandwiched between the two electrodes and allowed to cool in situ to re-form the gel structure which was a flexible film with good recovery from deformation.
A series of conductivity measurements was carried out over a range of temperatures, and the results are shown graphically in
Figure 1. The conductivity at 250C was found to be 10-3.2 Siemens per centimetre.
Example 2 - PET-1FP
Example 1 was repeated using l-formylpiperidine (1FP) instead of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone and 1.03g of lithium triflate instead of 1.18g. The conductivities over a range of temperature are shown graphically in Figure 1. The conductivity at 250C was found to be 10-3-5 Siemens per centimetre.
Dynamic mechanical measurements were performed on several shaped samples prepared according to Examples 1 and 2 using both parallel plates and cone-and-plate sample holders. The samples were subject to an alternating shear strain and the resulting shear stress measured and correlated against the input strain.
The measured shear moduli were generally independent of frequency over the range 0.1 to 500 rad/s and the shear relaxation modulus was determined to be about 103Pa. The dynamic modulus of all these samples was found to exceed 103Pa at 10 Hz.
The accompanying drawing shows the results from these two
Examples on a log-conductivity/inverse temperature plot.
Examples 3 - 11
The general procedure adopted was as follows:
Dry lithium triflate was dissolved in the dry solvent at room temperature in a sealed dry flask using the molar proportion required of lithium triflate to solvent. A measured volume of the solution was added to a measured weight of the polymer in a dry vessel and the mixture was heated, with mechanical stirring, by means of an oil bath pre-set at a temperature above 1500C sufficient to cause the polymer to dissolve. The vessel was sealed and quenched to room temperature to cause gel formation.
The conductivity and modulus measurements were made using the procedures already described.
The polymers used for these Examples (and for Examples 1 and 2) were obtained as follows:
Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) was a bottle-grade polymer of (n ] 0.96, in pellet form.
Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) was obtained from
Polysciences Inc. in pellet form. It had a weight average molecular weight, according to the suppliers, of 100,000.
Polyhydroxybutyric acid (PHBA) was obtained from Aldrich in powder form. It had a weight average molecular weight, according to the suppliers, of 670,000.
Poly(metaxylylene adipamide) (MXD,6) was Mitsubishi Grade 6001.
Nylon 6,6 was obtained from ICI in the form of granules, Type
R6600.
Polyoxymethylene was obtained from Aldrich in the form of beads.
Results of the conductivity and modulus measurements for
Examples 3-11 are given in Table 1. In this Table the abbreviations are as follows:
DMF dimethyl formamide
DMSO dimethyl sulphoxide
TGDME tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether
NMP N-methyl pyrrolidinone
DMA dimethyl acetamide
The values of G1 are measured at 1% strain amplitude and a frequency of 10 Hz. The values of G(t) are measured 2 minutes after application of a strain of 1%. Both G1 and G(t) are measured at ambient temperature.
Table 1
Example Polymer Solvent Mass Polymer Conduct- Dynamic Relax % Li conc. ivity at modulus ation
triflate wt% of 200C G (Pa) modulus
based total S cm-1 G(t)Pa)
on solvent gel 3 PVDF DMF 16.8 26.5 6.6x10-3 3x105 2x105 4 PVDF DMSO 18.3 23.8 4.6xl0-3 2x105 1x105 5 PVDF TGDME 5.9 27.2 2.0x10-4 1x105 7x104 6 PET NMP 13.5 27.2 2.0x10-3 2x105 1x105 7 PHBA DMA 14.0 13.4 3.6x1O#3 3x105 8 PHBA DMA 14.0 21.8 1.5x10-3 1x105 7x104 9 MXD,6 NMP 13.5 12.6 2.4xl0-3 2x105 1x105 10 Nylon 6,6 NMP 13.5 7.9 2.2x10-3 4x104 11 POM NMP 13.5 20.5 2.9x10-4 5x104 3x104
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- CLAIMS 1. An ironically conductive ion-containing gel having a bulk ionic conductivity at 200C and 10kHz greater than 10-4 Siemens/cm and a dynamic modulus at 10Hz greater than 103Pa, wherein the gel consists of a minor amount of a crystallisable polymer, a major amount of an organic compound that is not a solvent for the crystallisable polymer at 20 C, and a salt soluble in the said compound at 200C and dissolved therein at a concentration greater than 4% by mass based on said compound.
- 2. A gel according to Claim 1, wherein the crystallisable polymer is of sufficiently high molecular weight to form a coherent film or fibre.
- 3. A gel according to Claim 1 or 2, wherein the crystallisable polymer is a polyamide, polyester, polyether or substituted polyolefin.
- 4. A gel according to Claim 3, wherein the crystallisable polymer is poly(ethylene terephthalate), poly(l,4-butylene terephthalate), poly(3-oxybutanoate), polyhydroxybutyric acid, poly(hexamethylene adipamide), poly(metaxylylene adipamide), poly(#m-phenylene isophthalamide), poly(vinylidene fluoride), polyoxymethylene or polyoxyethylene.
- 5. A gel according to any preceding claim, whose dynamic modulus at 10Hz exceeds 104Pa.
- 6. A gel according to Claim 5, whose dynamic modulus at 10Hz exceeds 105Pa.
- 7. A gel according to any preceding claim, wherein the said organic compound Is a solvent for the crystallisable polymer at some temperature above 100 C.
- 8. A gel according to any preceding claim, wherein said compound is an amide, a sulphoxide or an ether, or a mixture of such compounds is used.
- 9. A gel according to Claim 8, wherein the amide is a tertiary amide.
- 10. A gel according to Claim 8, wherein said compound is dimethyl formamide, dimethyl acetamide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone, N-formyl piperidine, a dimethyl ether of diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol or tetraethylene glycol, or dimethyl sulphoxide.
- 11. A gel according to any preceding claim, wherein the salt is of an alkali metal salt or of optionally substituted ammonium.
- 12. A gel according to Claim 11, wherein the alkali metal is lithium.
- 13. A gel according to any preceding claim, wherein the anion of the salt is monovalent.
- 14. A gel according to Claim 13, wherein the anion is Bur', I-, a pseudohalogen or a perfluorinated alkyl carboxylate or sulphonate.
- 15. A method of making a gel according to any preceding claim, comprising forming a solution of the polymer in the organic compound at above 200C, incorporating the salt beforehand, simultaneously or afterwards, and cooling the solution.
- 16. A method according to Claim 15, wherein said solution is formed at above 1000C.
- 17. A method according to Claim 16, wherein said solution is formed at above 1500C.
- 18. A galvanic cell wherein the electrolyte comprises a gel according to any of Claims 1 to 14 or made by the method of Claim 15, 16, or 17.
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