Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Münster
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Sonderforschungsbereich 458 Ionenbewegung in Materialien mit ungeordneten Strukturen - vom Elementarschritt zum makroskopischen Transport - Schlossplatz 4/7 48149 Münster Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Klaus Funke |
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Forschungsschwerpunkte 2001 - 2002 Sonderforschungsbereiche
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Ionic Transport in Polymer Electrolytes of Variable Composition
Diffusion
experiments
with radiotracers allow for the ion-specific determination of transport properties in polymer
electrolytes (PE).
Especially for this class of electrolytes there is a strong need to measure the mobility of cations
and anions
individually since both species contribute substantially to the total ion conduction. Moreover,
comparing the
sum of the cation and anion diffusion coefficient with conductivity data may reveal the
occurrence of mobile
ion pairs or other electrically neutral complexes. However, the few published radiotracer studies
on PE
materials date back to the 1980s.
We investigated ion motion in an amorphous electrolyte consisting of
poly(ethylene oxide)
and sodium iodide by using the radioactive isotopes 22Na and 125I.
Radiotracer
penetration profiles were measured by means of microtome sectioning after isothermal diffusion
annealing in a
temperature range from 70 °C to 180 °C. Self-diffusion coefficients
determined from
the observed (near-)Gaussian or (near-)erfc-type profile shapes can be described by Arrhenius
equations with
activation energies of 0.39 eV for sodium and 0.29 eV for iodine. It is observed
that iodine
migrates roughly a factor of 3 faster than sodium which is more accurately expressed by the
increase of the
cation transference numbers from 0.16 at 70 °C to 0.32 at 180 °C. This
finding agrees
with earlier reports on the mobility of cations and anions in polymer electrolytes.
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