Self-tracking in solvent-free, low-dimensional polymer electrolyte blends with lithium salts giving high ambient DC conductivityElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: a molecular dynamics model with coloured atoms of the C16O5∶II∶Li salt complex from Cerius2 software. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b0/b004174m/

Abstract

A solvent-free, low-dimensional polymer electrolyte blend is described demonstrating a novel process of ‘self-tracking’ along the field direction in DC polarisation between lithium electrodes and giving ambient DC and AC conductivities upto 10⁻³ S cm⁻¹ with low temperature dependence of conduction.