PEO
Mw = 5 × 10
6 g·mol
−1 from Sigma-Aldrich (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) was used to prepare the composites.
LiTFSI, from Aldrich and neat sepiolite, kindly supplied by TOLSA S.A. (TOLSA, Madrid, Spain), were dried under a vacuum for 24 h.
d-α-tocopherol polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS), used to prepare the modified sepiolite TPGS–S, was purchased from Aldrich and used as received. Details on the preparation of TPGS-S have appeared elsewhere [14 (
link)]. The RTILs employed to prepare the electrolytes listed in
Table 1 were purchased from Solvionic (Solvionic, Toulouse, France), all of them with 99.5% purity. They are the following:
1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (EMIFSI),
N-propyl-
N-methylpyrrolidinium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (PMPFSI);
N-propyl-
N-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (PMPTFSI),
1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide (EMITFSI).
Solutions of
LiTFSI with RTILs and
poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether (PEG), Mn = 550 g·mol
−1 from Sigma-Aldrich (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) were prepared by magnetic stirring for 30–120 min, as model liquid phases for the solid polymer electrolytes.
González F., Gregorio V., Rubio A., Garrido L., García N, & Tiemblo P. (2018). Ionic Liquid-Based Thermoplastic Solid Electrolytes Processed by Solvent-Free Procedures. Polymers, 10(2), 124.