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  • Recent research highlights the increasing use of natural biopolymers, specifically guar gum (GG), as polymer electrolytes in electrochemical devices, with promising results from AlO nanofiber enhancements.
  • The best-performing gel electrolyte, containing 7.5 wt% AlO nanofibers, demonstrated a high room temperature ionic conductivity of 2.37 × 10 S/cm, indicating that these nanofibers significantly improve ion transport within the GG matrix.
  • Various analytical techniques confirm the conductive properties of the nanofibers, while electrochemical tests reveal good performance metrics, including stable discharge capacities and high thermal and mechanical stability for the nanofiber-dispersed BGEs.

Article Abstract

Recently, biopolymers made from natural resources are gaining popularity as polymer electrolytes (PEs) in electrochemical devices. In the present work, a series of guar gum (GG)-based biopolymer gel electrolytes (BGEs) filled with different amounts of AlO nanofibers are synthesized and tested. The BGEs containing 7.5 wt% AlO nanofibers show the maximum room temperature ionic conductivity of 2.37 × 10 S/cm at an uptake ratio of 120 %. Given the high conductivity, this uptake ratio is low, demonstrating that AlO nanofibers affect GG's ion transport characteristics. XRD reveals that the AlO in GG can create conductive environment for ion conduction. FTIR and XPS analyses demonstrate that nanofibers have the ability to generate supplementary routes for ion conduction in GG. Electrochemical investigations show that BGEs with 7.5 wt% nanofibers have a broad electrochemical potential range of 4.6 V. BGEs are stable at metallic electrodes and have a cationic transference number of 0.59. The initial discharge capacity at 0.5C has been measured to be 127 mAh g for Li|BGE|LiFePO cell in the first cycle and 116 mAh g with coulombic efficiency of over 94 % after 100 cycles. Nanofiber-dispersed BGEs have high thermal and mechanical stabilities, according to TGA, DSC, and UTM tests.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.138540DOI Listing

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