Designing Polymer Electrolytes for Safe and High Capacity Rechargeable Lithium Batteries.

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The development of solid polymer electrolytes for lithium battery applications is a challenge of profound technological significance. We have established a collaboration with the aim of understanding and designing improved polymer electrolytes that combines theoretical modeling, polymer synthesis, and experimental characterization. By studying diverse polymer chemistries, we have discovered that ion-solvation-site connectivity is an important feature of polymer electrolytes that is necessary for high lithium-ion conductance. We are employing this insight into search for improved polymer electrolytes, with promising early-stage results.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Acc Chem Res

Title: Accounts of chemical research

Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)

ISSN (Electronic): 1520-4898

ISSN (Print): 0001-4842

Publication date (Electronic): March 21 2017

Volume: 50

Issue: 3

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[1 ] Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California 91125, United States.

[2 ] Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.

[3 ] Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720, United States.

[4 ] Materials Science Division and Environmental Energy Technology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States.

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DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00568

PubMed ID: 28945396

SO-VID: 4dd5f8bc-e7aa-49c8-b240-3ef5292aa13c

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