Designing High-Performant Lithium Battery Electrolytes by Utilizing Two Natures of Li+ Coordination: LiTDI/LiTFSI in Tetraglyme

• Highly concentrated electrolytes (HCEs) based on glymes, such as tetraglyme (G4), are currently the focus of much battery research, primarily due to their unique properties - especially with respect to ion transport and electrochemical stability. While the LiTFSI-G4 and LiTDI-G4 systems both have been studied extensively, we here design their hybrid electrolytes to answer; will the resulting properties be averages/superpositions or will there be synergies created? We find the latter to be true and demonstrate that the most performant electrolytes are obtained by introducing a minor amount of LiTDI to an LiTFSI based electrolyte, which promotes the disproportionation and formation of "free" cations and at the same to avoid large aggregates - shown comprehensively both experimentally and by different modelling approaches and analyses combined. This electrolyte composition strategy can be generalized to other salts and solvents and thus a route towards a flora of novel battery electrolytes is here suggested.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi -- Materialkemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Materials Chemistry (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Kemiteknik -- Annan kemiteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Chemical Engineering -- Other Chemical Engineering (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi -- Annan kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Other Chemistry Topics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Concentrated electrolytes

Conductivity

Bi-salt system

Lithium

Modelling

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