Electrical conductivity studies of polyvinyl chloride-based electrolytes with double salt system
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2000
Abstract
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) has electrical conductivity of approximately 10-8 S cm-1. It can serve as a host matrix for solvating lithium salts. The highest room temperature electrical conductivity of 5.2 μS cm-1 for a double salt system was achieved for the composition 50 wt% PVC:15 wt% LiCF3SO3:35 wt% LiBF4. The addition of a plasticizer, ethylene carbonate (EC) and/or propylene carbonate (PC) to the above polymer-salt complex helps to increase the ambient electrical conductivity of the electrolyte. It was found that for the complex containing 40 wt% EC, the room temperature electrical conductivity of the 50 wt% PVC:15 wt% LiCF3SO3:35 wt% LiBF4 sample only increased by a factor of about 1.2. Equal amounts of PVC powder were then subjected to different doses of γ-irradiation. The PVC powders were then used to make different films with composition [50 wt% PVC+15 wt% LiCF3SO3+35 wt% LiBF4]0.6+[100 wt% EC]0.4. The film containing the PVC powder irradiated with a dose of approximately 104 Gy of γ-irradiation exhibits the highest conductivity of 450 μS cm-1. A double plasticizer system was also prepared and the sample containing the ratio PC/EC approximately 7 exhibits the highest electrical conductivity of 2.6 mS cm-1. Hence in this work, it has been shown that the conductivity of the double salt system can be improved by γ-irradiation and using double plasticizers.
Keywords
Electric conductivity of solids, Irradiation, Lithium compounds, Plastic films, Plasticizers, Polyvinyl chlorides, Powders, Salts
Divisions
PHYSICS
Funders
Asian Society for Solid State Ionics,Government of Malaysia: IRPA grant 03-02-03-0423
Publication Title
Solid State Ionics
Volume
136-13
Issue
1-2
Publisher
Elsevier