Solvent-free composite poly~ethylene oxide! ~PEO!-ceramic fiber or mat electrolytes with high ionic conductivity and good interfacial stability have been developed using high-ionic-conductivity La0.55Li0.35TiO3 fibers and mats. The conducting ceramic fibers can penetrate the cross section of the electrolyte film to provide long-range lithium-ion transfer channels, thus producing composite elect...

We study the effect of molecular shape on Li+ conduction in dilute and concentrated polymer electrolytes (LiI : P (EO)n(3 ≤ n ≤ 100)). We model the migration-diffusion of interacting Li+ ions in the helical PEO molecule as Brownian motion in a field of electrical force. Our model demonstrates that ionic conductivity of the amorphous PE structure is increased by mechanical stretching due to the ...

We report on the ionic conductivity of Li0.33La0.55TiO3 (LLTO) epitaxial films grown on the (100) and (111) surfaces of single crystal SrTiO3 (STO) substrates at different oxygen partial pressures (from 1.33 to 26.66 Pa). The films are intended for use as solid electrolytes for all-solid-state Li-ion batteries, and the epitaxial growth for modeling the electrolyte single crystal properties. The...

The optical absorption, ionic conductivity, electronic conductivity, and gas separation properties have been evaluated for flexible composite films of ionically conductive polymers that contain partially embedded arrays of ordered, crystalline, p-type Si microwires. The cation exchange ionomer Nafion, and a recently developed anion exchange ionomer, poly(arylene ether sulfone) that contains qua...

We have systematically investigated combinations of anions and cations in a number of protic ionic liquids based on alkylamines and used ab initio methods to gain insight into the parameters determining their liquid range and their conductivity. A simple, almost linear, relation of the experimentally determined melting temperature with the calculated volume of the anion forming the ionic liquid...

The physics of ac hopping conduc2ivity in disordered solids is discussed in the light of a recently proposed model. Several new comments are made. One of the most interesting facts about conductivity in disordered solids is the surprising similarity between ionic and electronic conductivity. The same kinds of non-linearities in strong electric fields are observed, and ionic and electronic condu...

We report very high lateral ionic conductivities in epitaxial cubic yttria-stabilized zirconia synthesized on single crystal SrTiO3 and MgO substrates by reactive direct current magnetron sputtering. Superionic conductivities (i.e., ionic conductivities of the order ~1 Ω -1 cm -1 ) are observed at 500 oC for 58-nm-thick films on MgO. Our results indicate a superposition of two parallel contribu...

The transport coefficients of three ionic liquids, lithium bromide ~LiBr!, rubidium bromide ~RbBr!, and molten silica (SiO2) are calculated by the mixture mode-coupling theory. The static partial structure factors required are obtained from the interionic interaction potential by the Ornstein– Zernike/hypernetted-chain integral equation. The anomalous pressure dependence of the transport proper...

Solid ionic conductors are actively sought for their potential application in electrochemical devices, particularly lithium batteries. We have found high ionic conductivity for a large variety of salts dissolved in the highly polar medium based on the plastic-crystal form of succinonitrile (N[triple bond]C[bond]CH(2)[bond]CH(2)[bond]C[triple bond]N). Its high diffusivity, plasticity and solvati...

Magnesium-ion conducting gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) based on PMMA with ethylene carbonate (EC) and propylene carbonate (PC) as a plasticizing solvent were prepared via the solution casting technique. Mg(CF3SO3)2 salt was used as source of magnesium ions, Mg 2+ . The variation of conductivity with salt concentrations, from 5 wt.% to 30 wt.% was studied. The gel polymer electrolyte with comp...