Influences of Cations Solvation on Charge Storage Performance in Polyimide Anodes for Aqueous Multivalent Ion Batteries
Nimkar A. Malchick F. Gavriel B. Turgeman M. Bergman G. Fan T. Bublil S. Cohen R. Weitman M. Shpigel N. Levi M.D. Aurbach D.
9 July 2021American Chemical Society
ACS Energy Letters
2021#6Issue 72638 - 2644 pp.
Among the examined organic electrodes for aqueous mono and multivalent ions batteries, polyimide is considered a promising candidate because of its high capacity and good cyclability in different electrolyte solutions. While most of the studies so far were focused on the energetic performance of polyimide anodes, much less is known about their charge storage mechanism and particularly how such electrodes are affected by the solvation properties of the inserted cations. Using in situ EQCM-D, a direct assessment of the cationic fluxes and their hydration shells inserted/extracted to/from PI electrodes upon potential application was performed for a large variety of mono and multivalent cations. Our observations demonstrated a pronounced withdrawal of water molecules from the polymeric electrodes during insertion of chaotropic cations and significantly less water withdrawal upon insertion of kosmotropic cations. These findings are well correlated with the capacity and the rate capability of the polyimide electrodes in the examined systems and shed light on their charge storage mechanism.
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Department of Chemistry, BINA - BIU Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel
Center for Physical and Chemical Methods of Research and Analysis, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan
Department of Chemistry
Center for Physical and Chemical Methods of Research and Analysis
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