Naoki Tachikawa

TL;DR: The oxidative stability of glyme molecules is enhanced by the complex formation with alkali metal cations, resulting in the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level lowering of a glyme molecule, which is confirmed by ab initio molecular orbital calculations.

TL;DR: In this paper, simple solvate ionic liquids, glyme-Li salt molten complexes, are presented as excellent electrolyte candidates because they greatly suppress the dissolution of lithium polysulfides, which leads to the stable operation of Li-S battery over more than 400 cycles with discharge capacities higher than 700 mAh g-sulfur−1 and with coulombic efficiencies higher than 98% throughout the cycles.

TL;DR: In this article, the properties of equimolar mixtures of glymes (triglyme) and nine different lithium salts (LiX) were investigated and compared with the reported data on common aprotic ionic liquids.

TL;DR: In this paper, a variety of binary mixtures of aprotic ionic liquids (ILs) and lithium salts were thoroughly studied as electrolytes for rechargeable lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries.

TL;DR: The lithium "solvate" ILs based on [Li(glyme)]X have many desirable properties for lithium-conducting electrolytes, including high ionicity, a high lithium transference number, high Li cation concentration, and high oxidative stability, in addition to the common properties of ionic liquids.