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Zwitterion-Containing Ionogel Electrolytes Fatin Lind, Luis Rebollar, Prity Bengani-Lutz, Ayse Asatekin, and Matthew J Panzer Chem. Mater., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b04456 • Publication Date (Web): 29 Nov 2016 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on November 30, 2016

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Zwitterion-Containing Ionogel Electrolytes Fatin Lind, Luis Rebollar, Prity Bengani-Lutz, Ayse Asatekin, and Matthew J. Panzer* Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St., Medford, MA 02155, USA ABSTRACT: Nonvolatile, solid electrolytes represent an important component of future electrochemical energy storage devices possessing enhanced safety attributes. Here, zwitterionic (ZI) sulfobetaine functional groups have been incorporated into polymersupported ionic liquid gel composites, known as ionogels. Zwitterion-containing ionogels are found to exhibit high room temperature ionic conductivity (6.5 mS cm-1) and tunable compressive elastic modulus values (4.1 kPa to 900 kPa), while retaining the outstanding thermal and electrochemical stability of the ionic liquid component, 1-ethyl-3-methyl-imidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide. Covalently attaching the ZI moieties to the polymer scaffold promotes enhanced ionogel homogeneity over time, compared to the use of a ZI additive that is free to diffuse and aggregate within the gel. Evidence of zwitterion self-interactions (dipole-dipole) and zwitterion-ionic liquid interactions (ion-dipole) that promote polymer physical cross-link formation and ionic liquid cation/anion pair dissociation, respectively, has been obtained. This demonstration of ZI copolymersupported ionogels will open up new avenues of inquiry aimed toward understanding the largely unexplored realm of zwitterion/ionic liquid systems.

Ionic liquids, which are molten salts at or near room temperature,1-3 have now been firmly established as a remarkable class of ultralow volatility, next-generation fluids for a variety of applications, including: materials synthesis, catalysis, gas separations, and electrochemical energy storage, to name a few.4-6 Their ion-dense character suggests that ionic liquids may be particularly well-suited to serve as electrolytes that can impart enhanced safety (i.e. nonvolatility, nonflammability7) to future electrochemical devices, including batteries and supercapacitors.8,9 A further gain in electrolyte safety is expected to result from immobilization of the ionic liquid in a leakproof gel form;10 in several manifestations, a cross-linked polymer scaffold has been employed to create what is termed an ionogel (or ion gel).11,12 An ability to tune the flexibility of ionogel electrolytes is highly desirable for many anticipated applications of these materials. As one would expect, ionogel elastic modulus can be increased by introducing additional cross-links within the supporting polymer scaffold.12 However, this usually comes at the cost of reduced ionic conductivity.13-15 Zwitterionic (ZI) molecules contain an equal number of positive and negative charged groups, and can exhibit large molecular dipole moments (e.g. 19–28 D).16 ZI additives have previously been shown to enhance the degree of lithium salt dissociation within ionic liquids and other electrolyte systems,17-19 likely due to significant ion-dipole interactions.20 Moreover, ZI copolymers, having ZI functional groups covalently tethered to the polymer backbone, are known to demonstrate self-associating behavior in aqueous environments21,22 that can be leveraged, for example, to improve the mechanical integrity of hydrogels through the formation of interchain ZI dipole-dipole physical cross-links23,24 or to finely tune the ionic channel domain size of membrane selective layers.25 Although the properties of ZI copolymer/ionic liquid mixtures have not been widely studied, the swelling of a ZI copolymer

with a water-miscible ionic liquid has been reported.26 Inspired by these works and the unique attributes of ZI materials, this work sought to examine the potential for ZI copolymersupported ionogels to simultaneously exhibit high room temperature ionic conductivities and tunable elastic moduli, due to the ion-dissociating and self-associating properties of ZI materials, respectively. In this Communication, we demonstrate that ZI copolymer-supported ionogels can be readily fabricated via in situ UV-initiated free radical polymerization,27,28 and that they indeed display high, nearly constant room temperature ionic conductivities, even as gel compressive elastic modulus values are increased more than 200-fold by varying the ZI content. Ionogel electrolytes were prepared using the aprotic ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (EMI TFSI, Fig. 1a) due to its high room temperature ionic conductivity (approximately 10 mS cm-1) and wide electrochemical stability window (4.2 V),29 which are important for electrical energy storage devices. The ZI monomer, sulfobetaine vinylimidazole (SBVI, Fig. 1b), was selected due to its imidazolium moiety (common to the EMI+ cation), in an attempt to promote better compatibility with the ionic liquid. Since the large dipole moments of ZI molecules typically render them strongly self-associating and hydrophilic,30,31 one could reasonably expect to encounter a challenge dissolving zwitterions into a hydrophobic, waterimmiscible ionic liquid (such as EMI TFSI). Indeed, we observed extremely low/sparing solubility of several ZI monomers, including SBVI, in neat EMI TFSI. However, it was found that the compatibility of SBVI with the ionic liquid could be substantially improved through the addition of 2,2,2trifluoroethyl methacrylate (TFEMA), which played the dual role here of cosolvent/comonomer in preparing homogeneous ionogel precursor solutions; it should be noted that 2,2,2trifluoroethanol is routinely used as a good solvent for ZI co-

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The increase in SBMI gel elastic modulus with greater ZI content, therefore, can be explained by the unintended creation of SBMI particles that act as nanofillers.33 In contrast, the SBVI gels maintained their transparent and homogeneous appearance (Fig. 2c) because the ZI functional groups were covalently bonded to the polymer scaffold.

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polymers.25,32 By varying the SBVI/TFEMA molar ratio in ionogel precursor solutions that contained a fixed amount of EMI TFSI (80 ± 1 mol%, 76 ± 1 vol.%), ZI contents as high as 7 mol% could be realized; ionogel synthesis and electrical characterization were performed under strictly O2/H2O-free conditions (see Supporting Information, SI). In order to examine potential differences in the properties of ionogels having a ZI component covalently tethered to the polymer scaffold versus simply present within the gel as an additive, a nonpolymerizable ZI analogue to SBVI, sulfobetaine methylimidazole (SBMI, Fig. 1c), was also used to prepare ionogels. Both SBVI- and SBMI-containing ionogels included TFEMA, as well as a small amount of pentaerythritol tetraacrylate (PETA4) as a covalent cross-linker;28 photographs of representative free-standing zwitterion-containing ionogel samples are displayed in Figures 1d and 1e.

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Compressive elastic modulus and room temperature ionic conductivity values for the two types of zwitterion-containing ionogels, possessing varying ZI contents for a fixed ionic liquid volume fraction (76 ± 1 vol.%), are shown in Figures 2a and 2b; for comparison, the properties of a non-ZI ionogel that contained only TFEMA/PETA-4 in the precursor solution are also displayed. It is important to note that the same quantity of PETA-4 (1.5 ± 1 mol%) was employed in each ionogel formulation. As seen in Fig. 2a, increasing the ZI content incorporated within the polymer scaffold (i.e. SBVI gels) within a range of 1–7 mol% resulted in a dramatic increase in ionogel elastic modulus values (4.1 kPa to 900 kPa) that is attributed to the spontaneous formation of ZI dipole-dipole physical cross-links between copolymer chains. While this phenomenon has been reported to occur in hydrogels,23,24 the present results clearly demonstrate that ZI copolymers can self-associate within a hydrophobic ionic liquid such as EMI TFSI, as well. By comparison, the elastic modulus values of SBMI-containing ionogels, for which the ZI component was not covalently incorporated into the polymer scaffold, increased only slightly (10 kPa to 20 kPa) with increasing ZI content (2.5–7 mol%). Due to its ability to diffuse freely within the ionogel, SBMI tended to self-associate into visible colloidal aggregates within a day or two following gel formation, as seen in Fig. 2c.

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The room temperature ionic conductivity values shown in Fig. 2b reveal a remarkable feature of these zwitterioncontaining ionogels: gel ionic conductivity (approximately 6.5 ± 1 mS cm-1) is essentially independent of ZI content over the range of compositions examined (0-7 mol%), even as gel elastic modulus values increase by orders of magnitude over the same range. Ionogel conductivity values were lower than that of the neat ionic liquid (10.2 mS cm-1) due to the presence of the polymer scaffold, which both reduces the ionic liquid concentration and impedes ionic motion. However, the fact that

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SBVI gel elastic modulus values could be increased more than 200-fold while maintaining an undiminished level of ionic conductivity represents a significant departure from previously-studied ionogel systems. Typically, such a dramatic increase in gel compressive elastic modulus is accompanied by a substantial decrease in ionic conductivity due to the presence of additional polymeric scaffold material/cross-links.12 Thus, the invariance of the ionic conductivity values obtained for these zwitterion-containing ionogels provides evidence that ZI functional groups may also serve to effectively dissociate additional cation/anion pairs or clusters in the ionic liquid34,35 via ion-dipole interactions. Further evidence of enhanced EMI TFSI ion pair dissociation can be seen in Figure 3, which shows the room temperature ionic conductivity values of several zwitterion-containing ionogel precursor solutions (prior to gelation), along with those of their corresponding ionogels (i.e., post-UV curing). All of the SBVI- and SBMI-containing ionogel precursor solutions exhibited higher ionic conductivities relative to their gelled forms due to the lack of a solid polymer scaffold that hinders ionic motion. Notably, the SBVI-containing precursor solutions displayed ionic conductivity values nearly equal to that of the neat ionic liquid, despite the fact that they contained only 76 vol.% ionic liquid. This observation clearly demonstrates the ability of the ZI functional groups to augment the degree of cation/anion pair dissociation relative to the level exhibited by neat EMI TFSI. A similar effect was observed for the non-ZI precursor solution, suggesting that TFEMA may also assist with ion pair dissociation.28 It is likely that the SBMI-containing precursor solutions displayed lower ionic conductivity compared to the SBVI solutions due to a greater degree of ZI self-association in the case of SBMI, which would reduce the effective number of zwitterion-ion interactions.

Figure 3. Room temperature ionic conductivity values of SBVIand SBMI-containing ionogel precursor solutions before gelation (open symbols), and for the corresponding ionogels after gelation (filled symbols). The dashed line indicates the ionic conductivity of the neat ionic liquid (EMI TFSI).

The schematic shown in Figure 4 illustrates our current understanding of the different types of cross-links and ZI interactions present within zwitterion-containing ionogels having ZI functional groups covalently bonded to the polymer scaffold. ZI groups augment the macroscopic stiffness of covalently cross-linked ionogel scaffolds through the formation of addi-

tional inter-/intrachain physical cross-links via Coulombic self-association of their charged portions; in addition, ZI groups can promote ionic liquid cation/anion dissociation (iondipole interaction) to enhance ionic conductivity by creating additional mobile charge carriers. Covalently tethering ZI functionality to the polymer backbone can prevent significant zwitterion aggregation within the gel (as seen in Fig. 2c), which promotes better ionogel homogeneity over time and facilitates a greater degree of zwitterion-ionic liquid interaction compared to the use of a non-tethered ZI additive. Importantly, the SBVI/TFEMA/PETA-4 copolymer scaffolds demonstrated here also do not significantly decrease the outstanding electrochemical and thermal stability of the ionic liquid, EMI TFSI (see SI).

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Figure 4. Schematic illustration of the two types of cross-links (xlinks) present in zwitterion-containing ionogels, as well as an attractive interaction (ion-dipole) between an ionic liquid ion and ZI functional group. These features serve to increase elastic modulus and promote high ionic conductivity in zwitterion-containing ionogel electrolytes, respectively.

In conclusion, zwitterion-containing ionogel electrolytes have been successfully synthesized via in situ UV-initiated free radical polymerization/cross-linking within an aprotic, hydrophobic ionic liquid, EMI TFSI. The solubility of the ZI monomer (SBVI) or ZI additive (SBMI) in the ionogel precursor solution was made possible through the use of a liquid comonomer (TFEMA). While both types of zwitterioncontaining ionogels created here (i.e., SBVI gels, with ZI groups covalently bonded to the polymer scaffold vs. freelydiffusing ZI additives, SBMI gels) displayed high room temperature ionic conductivities (≈6.5 mS cm-1), SBVI gels were found to exhibit better homogeneity over time and compressive elastic modulus values that could be tuned over two orders of magnitude by varying the ZI content, without suffering a loss in ionic conductivity. Within the ion-dense environment of the ionic liquid, ZI groups interact strongly with each other as well as with the ions of the ionic liquid, resulting in the formation of physical cross-links within the polymer scaffold and enhanced cation/anion dissociation, respectively. Therefore, zwitterion-containing ionogels represent an intriguing class of solid electrolyte materials that may offer new ways to effectively exploit the outstanding properties of ionic liquids for safer energy storage and other future applications.

ASSOCIATED CONTENT Supporting Information. The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website. Experimental details and additional data (PDF).

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The authors declare no competing financial interest.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS M.J.P. thanks the NSF (ECCS-1201935), and A.A. thanks the NSF (CBET-1437772, CHE-1508049) and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center for financial support.

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