Glassy electrolytes ionic salts

A careful definition of the various classes of polymer and glassy electrolytes is given by Angell et al. [85]. Utilizing these definitions, it is only the polymer in salt electrolyte (PISE) system that concerns us here. In these systems, an ionic liquid and a polymer are mixed together (the salt in excess... 

Various workers have studied electrol5des made by blending ionic liquids with solvents [3536,43,51,61-63], polymer electrolytes [26,48303538,64-68], polymers as electrode binders [21,4833,69] and ionomers whereby elements of the ionic liquids are incorporated into the pol)rmer backbone [70-75]. Such work has opened up new fields for these materials and simultaneously blurred the distinctions among ionic liquids, and rubber, glassy, gel, ionomer and polymer electrolytes. This is exemplified by a complex scheme in a review by AngeU [26]. hi this chapter, we have included such materials only when the salt forms the major component of the electrolyte, such as polymer-in-a-salt electrolytes or PISE [76,77]. 

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