New Tailored Sodium Salts for Battery Applications
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
Abstract
This
article describes synthesis and basic electrochemical and
structural properties of newly designed sodium salts for application
in liquid nonaqueous sodium electrolytes. There has been two imidazole
fluorine derivative sodium salts synthesized: sodium 4,5-dicyano-2-(trifluoromethyl)imidazolate
(NaTDI) and sodium 4,5-dicyano-2-(pentafluoroethyl)imidazolate (NaPDI).
The structure of the salts has been confirmed by means of Raman spectroscopy,
nuclear magnetic resonance (<sup>13</sup>C NMR and <sup>19</sup>F
NMR), X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetry (TGA), and differential
scanning calorimetry (DSC). Electrochemical characterization included
ionic conductivity measurements, dynamic viscosity, and electrochemical
stability of solutions of the salts in propylene carbonate (PC) at
different temperatures. Raman spectra of the electrolytes have been
performed to carefully monitor the degree of ionic associations specially
ion pairing tendencies