Block copolymer electrolyte for lithium batteries
AssigneeBlue Solutions Canada Inc.
InventorsAlain Vallee, Patrick Leblanc, Brieuc Guillerm
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Abstract
A solid polymer electrolyte for a battery is disclosed. The solid polymer electrolyte includes solid polymer electrolyte including a diblock copolymer AB or a triblock copolymer of the BAB type, in which block A is an unsubstituted polyethylene oxide chain having a number-average molecular weight less than 80,000 g/mol; block B is an anionic polymer prepared from one or more monomers selected from vinyl monomers and derivatives thereof to which is grafted an anion of lithium salt, and a second monomer having cross-linking functions.
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A solid polymer electrolyte for a battery, the solid polymer electrolyte including a diblock copolymer of AB type or a triblock copolymer of BAB type, in which:
- block A is an unsubstituted polyethylene oxide chain having a number-average molecular weight less than 80,000 g/mol;
- block B is an anionic polymer prepared from:
- (i) one or more monomers selected from vinyl monomers wherein block A and block B have the following formula:
- and to which is grafted at * an anion of lithium salt selected from the group consisting of LiCF3SO3, LiB(C2O4)2, LiN(CF3SO2)2, LiN(FSO2)2, LiC(CF3SO2)3, LiC(CH3)(CF3SO2)2, LiCH(CF3SO2)2, LiCH2(CF3SO2), LiC2F5SO3, LiN(C2F5SO2)2, LiN(CF3SO2), LiB(CF3SO2)2, LiPF6, LiSbF6, LiClO4, LiSCN, LiAsF6, and LiBF4;
- and
- wherein m is ≥1, x is ≥1, y is ≥1 and n is ≥1;
- and
- (ii) the one or more monomers are cross-linkable polyfunctional monomers having pendant chemical functions R1 and/or R2, the cross-linkable polyfunctional monomers including reactive groups for reaction during polymerization of the copolymer, the reactive groups selected from the group consisting of a vinyl phenyl substituted in ortho, meta or para position, an acrylate, a methacrylate, an allyl, an acrylamide, a methacrylamide and a vinyl;
- wherein, after the polymerization of the copolymer, the pendant chemical functions R1 and/or R2 are cross-linked to form a cross-linked copolymer network:
- and wherein proportion of the unsubstituted polyethylene oxide chain of block A relative to the anionic polymer of block B is between 40% and 80%.
A solid polymer electrolyte for a battery, the solid polymer electrolyte including a diblock of the DC type or a triblock copolymer of the DCD type in which block C is an unsubstituted polyethylene oxide chain having a number-average molecular weight less than 80,000 g/mol;
- block D is an anionic polymer prepared from one or more monomers selected from vinyl monomers and derivatives thereof to which is grafted an anion of lithium salt, the copolymer chains mixed with a cross-linkable polymer having low molecular weight (<20,000 g/mol) of at least one monomer selected from vinyl phenyl substituted in meta, ortho or para, acrylates and methacrylates, acrylamide, methacrylamide allyl, vinyl and compounds having at least one reactive double bond, the cross-linkable polymer being cross-linked to form a cross-linked copolymer network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.