Solid biopolymer electrolytes came from renewable biopolymer

Ning Wang; Xingxiang Zhang; Zhijun Qiao; Haihui Liu

doi:10.1117/12.835504

20 October 2009 Solid biopolymer electrolytes came from renewable biopolymer

Ning Wang, Xingxiang Zhang, Zhijun Qiao, Haihui Liu

Proceedings Volume 7493, Second International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering; 74933J (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.835504
Event: Second International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, 2009, Weihai, China

Abstract

Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) have attracted many attentions as solid state ionic conductors, because of their advantages such as high energy density, electrochemical stability, and easy processing. SPEs obtained from starch have attracted many attentions in recent years because of its abundant, renewable, low price, biodegradable and biocompatible. In addition, the efficient utilization of biodegradable polymers came from renewable sources is becoming increasingly important due to diminishing resources of fossil fuels as well as white pollution caused by undegradable plastics based on petroleum. So N, N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc) with certain concentration ranges of lithium chloride (LiCl) is used as plasticizers of cornstarch. Li⁺ can complexes with the carbonyl atoms of DMAc molecules to produce a macro-cation and leave the Cl^- free to hydrogen bond with the hydroxyl or carbonyl of starch. This competitive hydrogen bond formation serves to disrupt the intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonding existed in starch. Therefore, melt extrusion process conditions are used to prepare conductive thermoplastic starch (TPS). The improvements of LiCl concentration increase the water absorption and conductance of TPS. The conductance of TPS containing 0.14 mol LiCl achieve to 10^-0.5 S cm^-1 with 18 wt% water content.

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Ning Wang, Xingxiang Zhang, Zhijun Qiao, and Haihui Liu "Solid biopolymer electrolytes came from renewable biopolymer", Proc. SPIE 7493, Second International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, 74933J (20 October 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.835504

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