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    Selection of best composition of Na+ ion conducting PEO-PEI blend solid polymer electrolyte based on structural, electrical, and dielectric spectroscopic analysis
    (Springer, 2020) Pritam, Arya A; Sharma, A.L.
    In this paper, we report the investigation on structural, electrical, dielectric properties, and ion dynamics of novel blend polymer electrolyte matrix (PEO-PEI) complexed with sodium hexafluorophosphate salt. All the solid polymer electrolyte films have been synthesized via solution cast method. The SPE films were characterized by the X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscope, impedance-dielectric spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis. The morphology of the SPE alters with salt addition and confirms the blend polymer complex formation. The FTIR analysis evidenced the complex formation, and increase in the fraction of free ions is achieved. The ionic conductivity exhibits a maximum at the stoichiometric ratio O/Na = 10 and follows the Arrhenius behavior. The fraction of free ions is maximum for the SPE film with the highest ionic conductivity. The optimum electrolyte possesses a voltage stability window of about 4�V, excellent thermal stability up to 380��C, and high ionic transference number (~ 1). The complex permittivity and conductivity have been simulated in whole frequency window to extract relaxation time and dielectric strength. The dielectric constant and relaxation time exhibited sequentially a maximum and minimum for the SPE film with the highest ionic conductivity. The loss tangent peak shifts toward high frequency with addition of salt, and it infers the faster ion dynamics in the polymer matrix. Then the ion transport parameters number density of charge carriers (n), ion mobility (?), and diffusion coefficient (D) have been obtained by three methods (FTIR, impedance spectroscopy, and loss tangent method) and are in absolute correlation with the impedance results. An ion transport mechanism has been proposed based on experimental findings. � 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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    Improved ionic conductivity, potential window and dielectric strength in intercalated polymer nanocomposites
    (American Institute of Physics, 2019) Pritam, Arya A; Sharma, A. L.
    A nanocomposite solid polymer electrolyte has been synthesized using polyethylene oxide (PEO), sodium hexafluorophosphate (NaPF6), and organomodified montmorillonite (DMMT) nano-clay, with an aim to improve the ionic conductivity, voltage stability window, transference number and dielectric properties. The DMMT intercalated PNCs exhibits an ionic conductivity of three order (∼10-5 S cm-1) higher as compared to the pure polymer (∼10-8 S cm-1). The DMMT based PNCs have ion transference number close to unity (0.99) and wide voltage stability window (∼5V). The dielectric constant and dc conductivity increases with nanoclay addition. The relaxation peak in loss tangent plot shift toward high frequency on nanoclay addition and indicates the decrease of relaxation time. The evaluated relaxation time τϵ′, τtan δ, τh, τm are in good correlation with each other and exhibits minima for the nanoclay based PNCs which infers the faster segmental motion of polymer chain and supports the enhanced ionic conductivity. © 2019 Author(s).