Applied Chemistry, Vol.3, No.1, 356-359, April, 1999
Lithium polymer battery composed by aluminate polymer complex as single-ionic solid electrolytes
Single-ionic conductors, which promote solely the lithium ion migration (without any anion migration), have been realized as the polymeric solid electrolytes with lithium orthoaluminate repeating units carrying oligo(oxyethylene) main-chain and two side-chains of endomethoxy{oligo(oxyethylene)}. The ionic conductivity of the aluminate polymer compoexes was about 10-6∼10-7S/cm at room temperature. Thin film lithium secondary batteries were fabricated into 5.5×4.5×0.02(thick) cm cells from TiS2 (cathode), aluminate polymer complex and lithium foil (anode). These batteries showed minimal decay of output voltage upon constant current discharging and their capacity of first cycle was about 146mAh/g. A typical bi-ionic conductor of (5%LiClO4+aluminate polymer complex) hybrid system showed, on the contrary, rapid decay of output voltage due to the polarization.