Atomistic Description of Ionic Diffusion in PEO–LiTFSI: Effect of Temperature, Molecular Weight, and Ionic Concentration

Understanding the ionic diffusion mechanism in polymer electrolytes is critical to the development of advanced lithium-ion batteries. We report here molecular dynamics-based characterization of structures and diffusion in poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) with lithium and bis(trifluoromethysulfonyl)imide (TFSI) ions imbedded into the PEO structure. We consider a range of temperatures (360–480 K), molecular weights (43, 22, 10, and 2 chains with 23, 45, 100, and 450 EO monomers, respectively), and ion concentrations (r = 0.02, 0.04, 0.06, and 0.08 Li:EO) for which there is experimental data. The found dependence of the diffusion coefficients on these variables is in good agreement with experimental measurements. We then analyze how the diffusion performance depends on details of the atomistic diffusion mechanism, the motion of the Li and TFSI along the polymer chains and hopping between them, the role of polymer motion, the temperature dependence of the intrachain and interchain diffusion contributions to the tot...

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