Solid State Ionics, Vol.90, No.1-4, 261-268, 1996
The Disorder-Longitudinal Acoustic Mode of Oligo(Ethylene Glycol)-Lithium Trifluoromethane Sulfonate Solutions as Studied by FT Raman-Spectroscopy
This work presents the results of Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy investigations of the disorder-longitudinal acoustic mode (D-LAM) of oligo(ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether-lithium trifluoromethane sulfonate solutions in dependence on oligomer chain length, temperature and salt concentration. The peak position and the bandwidth of this mode depend on the long-range conformational disorder of oligo(ethylene glycol) chains. The addition of salt causes a marked increase of the long-range conformational disorder. The frequency shift of the D-LAM combined with changes in the asymmetric CH2 stretching bands indicate that the increasing long-range conformational disorder is connected with an increasing short-range conformational disorder of oligomer chains in a linear relationship.
Keywords:POLY(PROPYLENE OXIDE);POLYMER ELECTROLYTES;CHAIN MOLECULES;COMPLEXES;SPECTRA;THIOCYANATE;ASSOCIATION;NACF3SO3;LITHIUM;SODIUM