화학공학소재연구정보센터
Macromolecules, Vol.54, No.3, 1414-1424, 2021
Effect of Added Salt on Disordered Poly(ethylene oxide)-Block-Poly(methyl methacrylate) Copolymer Electrolytes
We studied the effect of salt addition on a diblock copolymer system with a negative Flory-Huggins interaction parameter, chi, indicative of attractive interactions between the two blocks. The system studied is poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PEO-PMMA) with added lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) salt. We studied two asymmetric block copolymers, PEO-PMMA(10-33) and PEO (10-64), where the numbers refer to the molar masses of the blocks in kg mol(-1). The small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) profiles for PEO-PMMA(10-33) were featureless at all salt concentrations. In contrast, PEO-PMMA(10-64) exhibited SAXS peaks when the salt concentration was between 0.22 <= m (mol Li/kg polymer) <= 0.44. The appearance of SAXS peaks only in PEO-PMMA(10-64) is consistent with the predictions of ionic self-consistent field theory developed by de la Cruz and co-workers, which predicts that in systems with negative, chi, ordered phases are only found when the volume fraction of the ionic block is about 10%.