LiI-doped N,N-dimethyl-pyrrolidinium iodide, an archetypal rotator-phase ionic conductor

Josefina Adebahr; Aaron J Seeber; Douglas R MacFarlane; Maria Forsyth

doi:10.1021/jp051927u

LiI-doped N,N-dimethyl-pyrrolidinium iodide, an archetypal rotator-phase ionic conductor

J Phys Chem B. 2005 Nov 3;109(43):20087-92. doi: 10.1021/jp051927u.

Authors

Josefina Adebahr¹, Aaron J Seeber, Douglas R MacFarlane, Maria Forsyth

Affiliation

¹ School of Physics and Materials Engineering, and ARC Centre for Nanostructured Electromaterials, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia. josefina.adebahr@eng.monash.edu.au

PMID: 16853597
DOI: 10.1021/jp051927u

Abstract

N,N-Dimethyl-pyrrolidinium iodide, and the effect of doping with LiI, has been investigated using DSC, NMR, and impedance spectroscopy. It was found that the addition of a small amount of LiI enhances the ionic conductivity by up to 3 orders of magnitude for this ionic solid. Furthermore, a slight decrease in phase transition onset temperatures, as well as the appearance of a superimposed narrow line in the (1)H NMR spectra with dopant, suggest that the LiI facilitates the mobility of the matrix material, possibly by the introduction of vacancies within the lattice. (7)Li NMR line width measurements reveal a narrow Li line width, decreasing in width and increasing in intensity with temperature, indicating mobile Li ions.