Abstract
Raman spectroscopy is widely used to evaluate the ionic interactions and solvates present in electrolytes. As shown here, however, Raman spectra for crystalline solvates containing the lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (or amide) (i.e., LiN(SO2CF3)2, LiTFSI, LiTFSA, LiNTf2 or LiTf2N) salt indicate that the commonly used vibrational band analyses are likely to be inaccurate and thus result in misleading conclusions about the ion interactions in liquid electrolytes with this salt. In particular, it is found by examining the Raman spectrum of a known crystalline solvate with the CIP-I-C
2 coordination mode (i.e., a TFSI− anion with a C
2 conformation coordinated to a single Li+ cation via a single oxygen atom), that the vibrational band for this mode of coordination overlaps (or is closely positioned beside) that for the uncoordinated (i.e., SSIP) TFSI− anion. This realization further complicates the assessment of Raman data for LiTFSI-based electrolytes.
Publisher
The Electrochemical Society
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Electrochemistry,Surfaces, Coatings and Films,Condensed Matter Physics,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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12 articles.
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