Abstract
The development of solid biopolymer electrolytes (SBEs) system based on alginate doped with LiBr was successfully prepared via solution casting. The structural and ionic conduction of SBEs were conducted to correlate the effect of LiBr in alginate by means of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and impedance spectroscopy. From the infrared study, SBEs exhibited the occurrence of complexation between lithium-ion and carboxylate ion (COO−) of alginate through the peak intensity and wavenumber shift. The alginate doped with 15 wt.% LiBr achieved the highest ionic conductivity of 7.46 × 10−5 S/cm at ambient temperature, suggesting its good conduction stability as well as amorphous phase. The IR-deconvolution approach revealed that the ionic conductivity of SBEs system is influenced by both the ionic mobility and diffusion coefficient of transport properties. Based on LSV analysis, it’s implies that the present SBEs have the potentiality to be applied in electrochemical devices.
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Introduction
The rising interest in polymer electrolytes (PEs) is primarily due to its potential applications in various solid-state electrochemical devices. The PEs have demonstrated desirable qualities, for instance, physical flexibility, dimensional stability, long life span, and electrochemical stability, among others [1, 2]. Owing to the aforesaid qualities, it exhibits itself as a promising alternative as electrolyte cum separator in energy devices, such as fuel cell, solar cell, batteries, and electric double-layer capacitors. Many works have been carried out that is devoted to exploring the variety of polymer materials as well as techniques in order to yield good conduction properties of PEs. In general, a polymer can be divided into two types: (1) synthetic polymer and (2) natural polymer. A number of works have been reported on the use of poly (methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) [3], poly (ethylene oxide) (PEO) [4], poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) [5], and poly (acrylonitrile) (PAN) [6] in the development of PEs. However, it is worth noting that this synthetic polymer is mainly produced from non-renewable resources that, in turn, may affect the environment, particularly with regard to its waste disposal.
In order to overcome such drawbacks, natural polymer from renewable resources has been widely explored as alternative for the development of PEs. Natural polymers or biopolymers have shown a promising substitute for synthetic counterparts, as it presents several advantages such as low cost, non-toxic, abundant availability in nature, and environmental and human body compatibility [7]. Green and eco-friendly SBEs membranes, obtained from biopolymers, have also been investigated over the last two decades [8]. Among investigated are the different polysaccharides-cellulose [9], chitosan [10], dextran [11], gelatin [12], or DNA-based PEs [13]. Such natural polymers have an ability to solvate the ionic dopant or/and produce free delocalized ions due to the interaction between the lone pair of the heteroatom such as oxygen or nitrogen with ionic dopant [14]. Such interaction is noteworthy for the enhancement of conduction properties in the PEs.
Alginate is a promising candidate for natural low-cost biopolymer, which can act as a polymer matrix for ionic conduction. Alginate is a brown alga, bioactive anionic polysaccharides composed of (1–4)-linked β-d-mannuronate and (1–4)-linked α-l-guluronate residues which generally have been used in packaging, biomedical fields, and food and textile industries [15,16,17]. Alginate is an anionic polymer (COO−) that is suitable for coordination formation with an ionic dopant and enhances the SBEs conduction properties. The typical procedure for obtaining good SBEs conduction properties is by using alkali metal salts (including lithium salts). The development of lithium ion–based SBEs has drawn considerable attention due to their stability in energy storage applications [18, 19].
Therefore, the aim of this paper is to prepare SBEs based on alginate host and lithium bromide (LiBr) dopant. The alginate-LiBr-based SBEs were characterized for structural, thermal, and conduction properties by using FTIR, XRD, SEM, TGA, DSC, and EIS, respectively. Besides, the ionic transport properties were analyzed using IR-deconvolution method and presented new insights on the conduction behavior of the present SBEs system.
Experimental method
Sample preparation
The SBEs film was prepared using a solution casting technique utilizing alginate (Shaanxi Orient Co. with M.W. ~ 40,000) as a polymer host and LiBr (Sigma-Aldrich with M.W. 86.85 g mol−1) as a dopant. Firstly, 2 g of alginate was dissolved in distilled water (solvent) and followed by the addition of LiBr (between the range of 5 to 25 wt.%). The mixture was continuously stirred at room temperature until a homogenous solution was obtained. The solution was poured into Petri dishes and dried in an oven at 60 °C for 24 h until a solid film was attained. In order to prevent the solvent from being trapped in the SBEs film, the film was further dried in vacuum desiccators filled with silica gel for a period of a month. The sample preparation scheme, physical appearance, and abbreviation (different composition) for the alginate-LiBr system are illustrated in Fig. 1.
Characterization
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
The FTIR analysis was conducted using Perkin Elmer Spectrum One equipped with attenuated total reflection (ATR) to investigate the interaction in alginate-LiBr SBEs system. The sample was placed on ATR holder equipped with Ge crystal, and IR light was passed through the sample within the wavenumber from range 4000 to 700 cm−1 with a resolution of 2 cm−1.
X-ray diffraction
Rigaku MiniFlex II X-ray diffractometer was used to characterize the crystal structure of alginate-LiBr SBEs system. The sample was placed onto a sample holder and scanned with a speed of 1.0 s and step size of 0.02° at 2θ = 5 to 80° using Cu Kα radiation (λ = 0.154 nm).
Scanning electron microscope
The surface morphological analysis was investigated using FEI quanta 450 scanning electron microscope (SEM) with an accelerating voltage of 10 kV. The prepared samples of SBEs were coated with a thin layer of platinum using Auto Fine Coaters JFC-1600 to prevent electrostatic charging on the electrolytes and reduce thermal damage. SEM characterization was carried out at × 2000 magnification by using Everhart Thornley Detector (ETD).
Thermogravimetric analysis
The thermal properties of SBEs sample were performed using TG-DTA2010SA (NETZSCH, Japan). The measurements were carried out in a nitrogen gas atmosphere at a flow rate of 100 mL min−1. The samples from different composition were heated from 30 to 550 °C at a heating rate of 10 °C min−1, and the mass of each sample is ~ 3 mg.
Differential scanning calorimetry
The thermal properties of the prepared SBEs were determined using a NETZSCH DSC 214 Polyma model. The prepared samples were analyzed at a heating rate of 30 °C min−1 in the temperature range of 30 to 300 °C in a nitrogen atmosphere (flow rate of 62 mL min−1).
Electrical impedance spectroscopy
The ionic conductivity of SBEs films was analyzed using HIOKI 3532-50 LCR Hi-TESTER at a fixed constant voltage level of 0.1 V and a frequency range of 50 Hz to 1 MHz. The SBEs sample was placed between two stainless steel electrode and tested at a temperature range from 303 to 343 K. The determination of ionic conduction for SBEs sample was operated in convention oven in order to control environment humidity effect. From the EIS parameter, the imaginary impedance (Zi) versus real impedance (Zr) of Cole-Cole plot and the bulk resistance (Rb) of SBEs sample were identified. Based on the Rb value, the ionic conductivity, σ, was determined using the following equation:
where t and A are sample thickness and cross-sectional area of the SBEs film, respectively. All the EIS measurements were repeated three times for each sample, and the average value was calculated.
Transport properties
The FTIR deconvolution approach is used in order to determine the transport properties of SBEs system, which retrieved using OriginLab 8.0 software. The absorbance peaks were fitted to a straight baseline and the area under the peaks was determined. The free ion percentage (%) was calculated using the following equation,
where Af is the area under the peak representing the region of the free ions and Ac is the total area under the peak representing the contact ions’ region. The number of mobile ions (η), ionic mobility (μ), and diffusion coefficient (D) of the SBEs system were measured using the following equations,
where M is the LiBr mole number, NA is Avogadro’s number, VTotal is the total volume of the alginate-LiBr SBEs, e is the electron charge, K is the Boltzmann constant, and T is the absolute temperature.
Voltammetry measurement
Linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) measurements were analyzed using PGSTAT M101 potentiostat with FRA32M module (Metrohm Autolab B.V., the Netherlands). The LSV was used to study the electrochemical stability window of SBEs at ambient temperature. LSV measurements were performed at a scan rate of 5 mV s−1 with a range of voltage from 0 to 2 V. The configuration of sample and electrode is similar to what has been reported from the literature where the stainless steel (SS) electrode was used as the reference, working and counter electrodes [20].
Result and discussion
FTIR spectroscopy analysis
The FTIR spectra of pure alginate (ALiB-0) and LiBr are shown in Fig. 2. The peaks at 1045, 1438, 1618, 2403, and 3415 cm−1 of ALiB-0 correspond to glycoside bond (C–O–C), symmetric stretching of COO−, antisymmetric stretching of COO−, polymer backbone structure of stretching CH2, and O–H stretching, respectively [21,22,23,24,25]. The peaks correspond to C–O–C and COO− of alginate are expected to have an interaction in the event that any ionic dopant incorporated in the alginate polymer. This interaction transpires as the alginate polymer contains a strong anion absorption as reported by literature [26, 27]. A sharp absorption peak at 3356 and 1612 cm−1 on the LiBr sample was suggested to correspond with the Li+ moiety of the LiBr [28,29,30]. The inset figure in Fig. 2 shows the optimized molecular structure of alginate which was retrieved from the density functional theory (DFT) based on Dmol3 modules (Material Studio 2017), respectively.
The highlighted wavenumbers that are thought to be the complexation between alginate and LiBr to transpire are presented in Fig. 3. The complexation can be observed by the changes in the absorption peaks (IR wavenumber) in SBEs system.
Based on Fig. 3(a), the C–O–C vibrational stretching band at 1045 cm−1 [31] was shifted to a lower wavenumber (1028 cm−1) after the addition of LiBr to ALiB-3. This shift suggests the ion-induced dipole interactions ensued upon the inclusion of lithium salt. In addition, the changes of the peak were affected by the attraction of ionic dopant towards alginate lone pair electrons [32, 33]. Due to the presence of a highly electronegative atom, oxygen atom from the C–O–C group, the electron pair was donated to the Li+ and, hence, forming the coordinated Li-Br bonding [34].
Figure 3(b) shows the characteristic peak of ALiB-0 at 1438 cm−1 and 1618 cm−1 that corresponds to both symmetric and asymmetric of the COO−,, and the peak was shifted to a lower and a higher wavenumber value at 1417 cm−1 and 1629 cm−1 upon the addition of LiBr to ALiB-3. It is expected that dissociation of Li+ cation from LiBr promotes the interaction with the negatively charged lone electron pairs (coordinating site) of COO− anion in alginate through Coulombic attraction force [35]. This electrostatic attraction is presumed to affect the amorphousness and ionic conductivity of SBEs [36, 37]. Furthermore, upon addition of ionic dopant to ALiB-5, the vibrational bands shifted back to a lower value at 1623 cm−1 for asymmetric COO− and remain unchanged for symmetric COO− at 1417 cm−1. The changes can be explained by dopant aggregation at higher loading (percolation threshold). It could also lead to the recombination of Li+ with Br− to form neutral ion pair and thus affects the transport properties and ionic conductivity [38].
From the findings, it is believed that there is a strong contribution of the coordination interaction of Li+ to the (C–O–C and COO−) between alginate and LiBr and evident that the conduction mechanism is expected to occur as presented in Scheme 1.
X-ray diffraction analysis
Figure 4 depicts the X-ray diffractograms of various SBEs samples. The ALiB-0 has two principal diffraction peaks at 2θ = 22.12 and 34.63°, which indicate two different amorphous regions as reported by other works [39, 40]. As stated by Zhang et al. [41], the pure alginate showed two broad, amorphous peaks attributed to polysaccharide structure. However, a small crystallite peak at 13.84° for ALiB-0 is observed, which may correspond to the alginate characteristic that is similarly reported by other researchers [42, 43].
The reduction of the XRD peak intensity (becoming more amorphous) is observed when LiBr was added in the alginate SBEs. As reported by Hodge et al. [44], the amorphous nature of the polymer matrix can be established by a correlation between the height of the peak intensity and degree of crystallinity. The disappearance of crystallite peak at 13.84° upon addition of LiBr suggests that there is a dissociation of Li+ from Li-Br and formed a coordinating bond with biopolymer matrix as supported by FTIR analysis [45]. The phenomenon affects on energy barrier decrement to the segmental motion of the present SBEs, thus accelerating and inducing Li+ ions to have higher ionic conductivity [46]. Correa et al. reported that the changes of amorphousness in polymer electrolytes would affect the ionic conductivity and conduction properties [47].
Morphological analysis
Figure 5 depicts the surface morphology of SBEs at ambient temperature. From Fig. 5(a), the pure alginate showed a homogeneous, smooth morphology without cracks or pores, indicating a solid structure formation [48]. Upon addition of LiBr, the ALiB-1 microstructure in Fig. 5(b) displayed the rough surface properties which indicates that the samples are homogeneous with amorphous nature. Due to the complete dissolution of salt in the polymer matrix, the enhancement of segmental motion takes place in the SBEs. Such motion produces empty spaces, which enables a more effortless ion flow in the material with electric field presence, and it is expected to increase the ionic conductivity [49]. As shown in Fig. 5(c), the SEM image of ALiB-3 revealed the homogeneity surface without any phase separation that could be due to the ion set-ups in the present SBEs, which enhances the ion transportation, thus establishing the amorphousness of the sample [50].
The dispersion of nanoparticles at the higher composition of LiBr (ALiB-5) was demonstrated to be not uniform, and some agglomeration was observed (Fig. 5(d)). This result is in parallel with the findings of Salman et al., which reported notable aggregation at a higher composition of lithium tetrafluoroborate (LiBF4) in the biopolymer matrix [51]. Excessive LiBr disables the ion interaction with alginate and promotes ion recombination (re-crystallization) [52]. This phenomenon reflects the reduction in the thermal stability and transport properties that in turn reduces the ionic conductivity.
Thermogravimetric analysis
Figure 6 shows the thermogravimetry profiles of SBEs upon heating at a temperature range of 30 to 550 °C under N2 atmosphere. The thermal degradation process of SBEs was studied by observing sample mass loss as a function of time or temperature. The thermal degradation of pure alginate (ALiB-0) exhibit three-stage degradation process. The initial degradation is due to water loss and decomposition, and the final degradation is due to ring dehydration, cleavage of glycosidic bonds, and decarboxylation of alginate [53, 54].
Three distinct degradation stages were observed for SBEs system and were tabulated in Table 1. The first degradation in SBEs system from room temperature to ~ 100 °C describes the losses of moisture in biopolymer complexes [55, 56]. According to Kadir and Hamsan (2018), the water weight loss at initial step is due to the hygroscopic nature of polymer [11]. Based on Fig. 6, the second stage decomposition (up to 260 °C) was contributed to the loss of the carboxylate anion group (COO−) from the biopolymer backbone [57]. It can be seen that ALiB-0 showed a sudden weight loss of ~ 33% (decompose stage) with the decompose temperature at 255.89 °C. As reported by Swamy et al. [58], carboxylate groups in the biopolymer backbone of alginate undergo decarboxylation (degradation) in the range of 219 to 261 °C. However, thermogram of ALiB-3 depicts decomposed temperature at 259.71 °C with lower weight loss of ~ 28% at similar decompose stage compared with ALiB-0. It is shown from the present investigation that the addition of LiBr improved both heat resistivity and thermal stability of SBE complexes. Moreover, the greater amorphous phase as revealed by XRD analysis was due to the increment of the decompose temperature upon the addition of LiBr. This increase in temperature reduces the energy barrier and causes segmental motion of the polymer electrolytes and, thus, leads to the possible ionic conductivity increment. A similar finding has been reported by Mary et al. [59] for the system based on K-carrageenan complexed with lithium bromide where the amorphous structure of polymer electrolytes would create adequate pathways that increases the thermal stability and ionic mobility and thus improves the conductivity values.
For the third stage (above ~ 260 °C), a small weight loss was observed with ~ 12% for ALiB-3. According to Huq et al. (2012), the degradation and charring of the remaining carbon ash from alginate complexes took place when the temperature exceeds ~ 500 °C [60]. The increment of temperature above 500 °C (prolong heating) resulted in the carbonization of polymer backbone into ash formation [61].
Differential scanning calorimetry analysis
The DSC was used to characterize the thermal properties of complex system in order to further understand the interaction between alginate and LiBr [62]. Figure 7 displays DSC thermograms obtained from the alginate SBEs system. Generally, the glass transition temperatures (Tg) depend upon intermolecular interactions, the molecular weight, the chain flexibility, and branching and cross-linking density [63]. The Tg was measured at the midpoint of each transition, and this method has been reported in the literature [64, 65]. According to Mary et al. [59] and Unnisa et al. [66], the Tg taking place at a range of temperature where its midpoint is accompanied with a maximum shift of heat flow or step-like transition which is considered the mean value of the distribution. The observed Tg for SBEs system is depicted by arrows as shown in the Fig. 7. Figure 7(a) depicted that no Tg was recorded for pure alginate. The pure alginate displayed the endothermic peak, Endopeak at 71.70 °C. According to Rezvanian et al. [67], the endotherm is related to the elimination of free water and dehydration of the cross-linked polymer matrix (alginate-sodium cation).
In the SBEs system, a single Tg value was clearly observed with the incorporation of 5 wt.% LiBr (ALiB-1) with the Tg value at 79.30 °C. This Tg is attributed by the formation of coordination between the oxygen atom of polymer matrix chain segments and Li+ from LiBr, which forms the complexation [28]. Notably, the addition of LiBr until 15 wt.% (ALiB-3) affects the Tg value, which is shifted to a lower temperature, thus aiding in the softening of the polymer chain backbone. The decrease in Tg indicates an increment in the flexibility of polymer chains; hence, ALiB-3 is expected to achieve the highest ionic conductivity [26]. Further increase in the composition of LiBr above 15 wt.% leads to the increment of the Tg value. This can be attributed to the formation of ion aggregates in the polymer matrix, which reduced the flexibility of the polymer chain; therefore, Li+ may no longer act as transient cross-linkers [11]. A similar trend has been observed by Arockia Mary (2019) for the system based on k-carrageenan complexed with LiBr where the cross-linkage bonds block the rotation of polymer segments, leading to the hardening of polymer chains and hence intensifying the energy barrier to the segmental movement [59].
Ionic conductivity analysis
Figure 8 depicts the Cole-Cole plot of various samples’ alginate-LiBr-based SBEs at ambient temperature. In the present work, the Cole-Cole plot consists of two different patterns, i.e., (1) semicircle and a tilted spike and (2) only a tilted spike. Both patterns can be fitted and explained with electrical equivalent circuits, as shown in the inset of Fig. 8. It is apparent that ALiB-1 and ALiB-5 illustrated a combination of an incomplete semicircle and an inclined spike, which corresponds to the ion conduction characteristics with the blocking electrode effect in SBEs [68]. The semicircle can be represented by a parallel combination of bulk resistance (Rb) and constant phase element (CPE) with another CPE in series due to tilted spike, which confirms the semiconducting behavior as reported by other researchers [69, 70]. In the semiconducting materials, the CPE or bulk capacitance behave like “leaky capacitor,” in which it functions as a compensator for the inhomogeneity in the SBEs system [71]. Since stainless steel is used as the electrode, the high-frequency semicircle may be associated to the ionic conduction process in the bulk of the SBEs, and the low-frequency spike is attributed by the electrodes blocking effect [72]. On the other hand, ALiB-3 show a full inclined spike with the disappearance of the semicircle and this could lead to ionic conductivity improvement where only the resistive elements prevail in the present SBEs [73]. The Cole-Cole plot for ALiB-3 can be fitted with a resistor connected in series with CPE, and this behavior has also been observed by other works [74, 75]. Figure 9 (inset) shows the Rb value for each composition of alginate-LiBr SBEs system.
From the Cole-Cole plot, the value of Rb was determined (tabulated as inset figure in Fig. 9) and the ionic conductivity of SBEs system was calculated using Eq. 2. Figure 9 shows the ionic conductivity values of alginate doped with different contents of LiBr at ambient temperature. The ionic conductivity increased from 4.67 × 10−7 S cm−1 for ALiB-0 (from previous study) [76] to optimum value at 7.46 × 10−5 S cm−1 (sample ALiB-3). The enhancement of ionic conductivity could be attributed to the increment of transport properties, which initiate the Li+ ion transportation in biopolymer segments [77]. Furthermore, the ionic conductivity increment was found to be aligned with the morphological and thermal stability analyses as previously discussed where it creates more space in the biopolymer matrix which reflects the migration of Li+ to the coordinating site COO− or C–O–C with lesser of blocking pathway [78, 79]. It shows that beyond the optimum ionic conductivity value of sample ALiB-3, the ionic conductivity started to decrease. This might occur due to the formation of ion aggregation as revealed by XRD and SEM analysis which leads to a decrease in the mobility of ions [45, 80].
Figure 10 depicts the log conductivity versus 1000/T for various sample of alginate-LiBr SBEs system at a temperature range from 303 to 343 K. The temperature assists the enhancement of the ionic conductivity in SBEs system. The increment in temperature boosts the kinetic energy of molecules in polymer to eliminate the weak interactive bonds between oxygen atoms of alginate, and Li cations [81]. Due to the increment of thermal stability (refer to TGA analysis), Li+ ions are more easily decoupled from polymer backbone, which assists the ionic migration with the polymer matrix, which in turn increases the ionic conductivity at elevated temperature. The temperature-dependent study of the SBEs system obeys the Arrhenius characteristics, where the regression value, R2, is in the range of 0.95 to 0.99 [82]. Therefore, the mechanism of cation transport can be associated with that of what transpired in ionic crystals where ions jump to the nearest vacant sites, causing the DC ionic conductivity to increase to a higher value [83]. It is noteworthy to mention that at high temperature, the energy would be large enough to overcome the potential barriers that is created between the sites and thus leads to the increase in the free volume of the system, which in turn facilitates the segmental motion of ionic charge carriers [84]. In order to probe the ion dynamics of SBEs system, the activation energy of electrical conduction (Ea) for the SBEs system has been calculated from the slope of the linear fitting based on Arrhenius relationships [85]:
where σo is a pre-exponential factor, k is the Boltzmann constant, and T is the temperature in Kelvin. The Ea is defined as the required energy to overcome the reorganization and reformation of the interactive bonds between polymer chain and Li+ ions [86]. Figure 9 showed that the Ea reduces as the ionic conductivity increases. The ALiB-3 shown the highest ionic conductivity (7.46 × 10−5 S cm−1) and possesses the lowest activation energy (0.20 eV). This indicates that lesser energy is required by the charge carriers in higher conducting sample to begin hopping process towards coordinating site of alginate [63].
Transport properties
The transport parameter for SBEs system was determined via FTIR deconvolution technique. Figure 11 depicts FTIR deconvolution of alginate-LiBr in SBEs system. According to Ramlli et al. [87], the area of de-convoluted peak is determined and used if there is a significant change of wavenumber which is believed that the complexation has occurred between the polymer and ionic dopant, suggesting the need of separation between the free ions and contact ions within the region. The region between 1500 and 1800 cm−1 was selected due to obvious changes in terms of their band wavenumber as shown from FTIR analysis. Moreover, the previous FTIR analysis depicted a clear absorption peak at 1612 cm−1 for ionic dopant due to Li+ moiety from LiBr. The percentage area of free ions and contact ions of SBEs system were calculated using Eq. 2 and tabulated in Table 2. From Fig. 11, the peak adjacent to ~ 1630 cm−1 may be attributed by the free ions, and the peaks adjacent to ~ 1590 cm−1 and ~ 1670 cm−1, respectively, can be assigned to the contact ions in the polymer matrix [26, 88, 89]. Table 2 denotes that free ions of SBEs system increased proportionally to LiBr with an addition to up to ALiB-3. This attributes to the increment of ion dissociation from Li+ to polymer matrix; thus, it directly increases the conductivity value of the SBEs system [90]. Beyond ALiB-3 sample, the percentage of free ions starts to decrease due to re-association of ions, which reduces the ionic conductivity of SBEs system [26, 91].
The numbers of η, μ, and D were calculated using Eqs. 3–5 and were tabulated in Table 2. The μ and D mimic the ionic conductivity trend of SBEs system where it achieved optimum value at ALiB-3 and dropped rapidly at ALiB-4. Similar behavior was reported by Arof et al. (2014), where ionic conductivity was governed by the μ and D in their work [69]. The increment of LiBr in SBEs confirmed the assumption made in the FTIR study where the Li+ from LiBr migrate to lone pair of COO− from biopolymer matrix. Therefore, the value of μ and D increased which leads to the increment of ionic conductivity and the migration of Li+ ions only requires lesser activation energy in order to move freely in the backbone of biopolymer [82]. The continuous increment of η above optimum ionic conductivity reflected towards over-crowding of Li+ ions, and this leads to ion cluster formation, which reduced the ionic conductivity in the SBEs [92].
Electrochemical stability
The LSV is a vital study to determine the working potential of the polymer electrolytes for practical application in electrochemical devices [19, 93]. The electrochemical stability of the SBEs for highest conducting sample (ALiB-3) has been studied using LSV, and the corresponding voltammogram is shown in Fig. 12. There is no significant current that passes through the working SS electrode from the open circuit potential up to 1.25 V, which corresponds to the plating of ALiB-3 sample onto SS electrode, and this may be related to the decomposition of the sample [94]. It increases gradually when the electrode potential is above than 1.25 V. The sample may depend on the processes occurring at the SS electrode [28], and the sample working voltage may breakdown at a slightly lower potential under differing conditions. The results showed that 1.80 V is a suitable potential for ALiB-3, and this implies that there is no decomposition of ALiB-3 components at this region. Chitra et al. [95] have reported in their work (i-carrageenan doped with LiClO4) using a similar technique where the working potential breakdown for polymer electrolyte is 2.36 V at room temperature with highest conducting sample value of 3.57 × 10−4 S cm−1 and found to be similar with the results obtained in this present work. This finding revealed that the present SBEs system is compatible and has the possibility for application in electrochemical devices since the electrochemical window standard of energy devices is about ∼ 1 V [96].
Conclusion
The development of SBEs based on alginate doped with various compositions of LiBr (5–25 wt.%) was successfully prepared via solution casting method. The complexation between alginate and LiBr was investigated by using FTIR analysis which exhibits a significant possible interaction happening at C–O–C stretching, symmetric and asymmetric COO– stretching. The TGA and DSC analyses depict that SBEs system promoted good thermal stability with the addition of LiBr in the SBEs. It shows that the ionic conductivity values (at ambient temperature) of alginate-LiBr SBEs were found to increase from 4.67 × 10−7 S cm−1 for the undoped sample to optimum value at 7.46 × 10−5 S cm−1 for sample ALiB-3. The ionic conductivity increment is aligned with the surface morphology and amorphous phase, as revealed by SEM and XRD analyses. The temperature dependence of conductivity for various composition of LiBr follows the Arrhenius characteristics within the studied temperature range. Ionic transport properties based on IR-deconvolution approach have shown that the ionic conductivity of alginate-LiBr SBEs is governed by the μ and D. The LSV revealed ALiB-3 has a possible potential to be used as an electrolyte system for application in electrochemical devices. Further investigation shall be carried out to increase its ionic conduction properties.
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Fuzlin, A.F., Nagao, Y., Misnon, I.I. et al. Studies on structural and ionic transport in biopolymer electrolytes based on alginate-LiBr. Ionics 26, 1923–1938 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-019-03386-7
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