Abstract:
A cathode includes a cathode active material layer including a cathode active material; and a coating layer that is disposed on the cathode active material layer and that includes a block copolymer, wherein the block copolymer includes at least one first block that forms a structure domain and a second block that forms an ion conductive domain, and a total amount of the first block is in a range of about 20 weight percent to about 80 weight percent based on the total weight of the block copolymer.
Abstract:
A negative electrode for a lithium battery, including a lithium metal; and a protective layer disposed on at least a part of the lithium metal, wherein the protective layer includes a block copolymer including a structural domain and a hard domain covalently linked to the structural domain, wherein the structural domain includes a structural block of the block copolymer, wherein the hard domain includes a hard block of the block polymer, wherein the structural block includes a plurality of structural repeating units, and wherein the hard block includes a plurality of olefin repeating units.
Abstract:
An electrolyte composite including a first block copolymer and a lithium ion conductor, wherein the first block copolymer includes i) a structural domain and ii) at least one of a rubbery domain and an ion conductive domain, wherein the structural domain includes a polymer segment including a structural repeating unit, wherein the rubbery domain includes a polymer segment including a rubbery repeating unit, and wherein the ion conductive domain includes a polymer segment including an ion conductive repeating unit.
Abstract:
An electrolyte including a block copolymer having a first domain and a second domain covalently linked to the first domain, an ionic liquid, an oligomer, an inorganic particle, and a lithium salt, wherein the first domain includes an ion conductive polymer block, and the second domain includes a non-conducting polymer block.
Abstract:
An electrolyte membrane for an energy storage device, the membrane including a matrix including a first ionically conductive polymer; an alkali metal salt, an alkali earth metal salt, or a combination thereof; a metal-organic framework; and a second ionically conductive polymer miscible with the first ionically conductive polymer, wherein the second ionically conductive polymer is covalently bound to a portion of or the entire surface of the metal-organic framework through at least one amide bond.
Abstract:
An electrolyte composition for a lithium battery includes a block copolymer and a nanoparticle composite dispersed in the block copolymer. The block copolymer includes a structural domain including a polymer having a structural repeating unit; and an ion conductive domain including a polymer having an ion conductive repeating unit, a rubbery domain including a polymer having a rubber repeating unit, or a hard domain comprising a polymer having an olefin-based repeating unit.
Abstract:
An electrolyte including a copolymer including (i) an ion-conductive domain including an ion-conductive segment of the copolymer, wherein the ion-conductive segment includes a plurality of ion-conductive units, and (ii) a structural domain including a structural segment of the copolymer, wherein the structural segment includes a plurality of structural units, wherein the ion-conductive domain and the structural domain are covalently linked, and a polymer network phase coupled to the ion-conductive domain.
Abstract:
A polymer electrolyte for a lithium battery, wherein the polymer electrolyte includes a polymerization product of a lithium ion conductive compound including an ethylenically unsaturated bond, a lithium ion conductive unit, and an ion-exchangeable functional group; and a heteroatom-containing ionic liquid polymerizable with the lithium ion conductive compound.