EMIMBF4 in ternary liquid mixtures of water, dimethyl sulfoxide and acetonitrile as 'tri-solvent-in-salt' electrolytes for high-performance supercapacitors operating at -70 °C
| Autor: | Rafael M. Madero-Castro, María C. Gutiérrez, José Manuel Vicent-Luna, M. Luisa Ferrer, Sofia Calero, Francisco del Monte, Xuejun Lu |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Materials Simulation & Modelling, Computational Materials Physics, Molecular Simulation & Modelling, EIRES Systems for Sustainable Heat, EIRES Chem. for Sustainable Energy Systems |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Materials science
Inorganic chemistry Energy Engineering and Power Technology Salt (chemistry) 02 engineering and technology Electrolyte 010402 general chemistry Electrochemistry 01 natural sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Supercapacitors General Materials Science SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy Acetonitrile Eutectic system Supercapacitor chemistry.chemical_classification Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Eutectic mixtures Solvent-in-salt electrolytes 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Water-in-salt electrolytes 0104 chemical sciences Solvent chemistry Ionic liquid Hydrogen bond complexes 0210 nano-technology SDG 7 – Betaalbare en schone energie |
| Zdroj: | Energy Storage Materials, 40, 368-385. Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 2405-8297 |
| Popis: | For many years, the performance of Li-ion batteries (LIBs) and supercapacitors (SCs) has relied mainly on two factors, (1) the optimization of electrodes composition and/or structure and (2) the selection of salts or ionic liquids (ILs) matching well with the compositional and/or structural features of electrodes. Solvents included in electrolyte composition have been typically seen as a mere medium where the electrochemically active salts or ILs are dissolved or mixed. More recently, attention has also been paid to specific issues, such as flammability, toxicity, electrical conductivity and/or electrochemical stability window (ESW). Recent reports describing water-in-salt (WIS), solvent-in-salt (SIS) and bi-solvent-in-salt (BSIS) electrolytes demonstrated that solvent molecules may indeed play a more active role in the achievement of high-performance LIBs and SCs. This work accomplished the design of a tri-solvent-in-salt (TSIS) electrolyte where every solvent contributed (with an IL such as EMIMBF4) to the formation of an electrochemically active hydrogen bond (HB) complex structure. Raman and NMR spectroscopies, as well as molecular dynamic (MD) simulations helped elucidate the ratio among all compounds (e.g., solvents and IL) in the HB complex structure that best works as an electrolyte. For instance, one could start from the eutectic mixture of H2O and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) in a 2 to 1 molar ratio and then add acetonitrile (CH3CN) in different molar ratios. Thus, the 2H2O:DMSO mixture offers low melting point and low flammability, and CH3CN provides an improvement of the rate capability to the resulting electrolyte. As compared to other electrolytes, the TSIS electrolyte composed of 1.5EMIMBF4:2H2O:DMSO:3.5CH3CN (5.8 m, TSIS-5.8) was cost efficient and exhibited self-extinction rates as low as 40 s g-1. Moreover, SCs operating with TSIS-5.8, at -70 °C and up to 2.7 V provided energy densities of ca. 49 and 18 Wh kg-1 at, respectively, power densities of 10,000 and 17,000 W kg-1, a capacitance retention of ca. 82% after 15,000 cycles at 4 A g-1 and a self-discharge as low as 22%. |
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