ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Effect of the multi-oxirane ring epoxy on microstructure formation in multifunctional electrolytes

Abstract: Materials performing two or more function simultaneously, multifunctional materials, are receiving an increased amount of attention as they can bring weight/volume saving into the devices. One example is multifunctional electrolyte (ME), i.e. electrolytes that possess a combination of high ionic conductivity and mechanical properties. The ME with bicontinuous structure, in which one phase is responsible for the mechanical performance and another for the ion conduction, showed the best combination of these two properties. However, the structure formation is strongly dependent on the composition of the formulations, especially those based on the epoxy resin(s). Previously we showed that using SANS it is possible to see the difference in structure formation of formulations containing epoxy and ionic liquid. experiments shown that using a blend of DGEBA with the tri-oxirane ring epoxy resulted in the reduction of the feature sizes. The proposed experiment, will be focused on addition of the different amount of trioxirane ring epoxy and LiTFSI to the DGEAB+IL formulations and assess their effect on microstructure formation. Experiments will be run at r.t. and 50 C.

Principal Investigator: Dr Natasha Shirshova
Experimenter: Dr Valeria Arrighi
Local Contact: Dr Leide Cavalcanti

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB2610175

ISIS Experiment Number: RB2610175

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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