Fast evaluation technique for the shear viscosity and ionic conductivity of electrolyte solutions. 2022

Takeshi Baba, and Seiji Kajita, and Tohru Shiga, and Nobuko Ohba
Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., 41-1, Yokomichi, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1192, Japan. takeshi.baba.eu@mosk.tytlabs.co.jp.

With the growing need to obtain ideal materials for various applications, there is an increasing interest in computational methods to rapidly and accurately search for materials. Molecular dynamics simulation is one of the successful methods used to investigate liquid electrolytes with high transport properties applied in lithium-ion batteries. However, further reduction in computational cost is required to find a novel material with the desired properties from a large number of combinations. In this study, we demonstrate an effective fast evaluation technique for shear viscosity and ionic conductivity by molecular dynamics simulation for an exhaustive search of electrolyte materials with high transport properties. The proposed model was combined with a short-time correlation function of the stress tensor and empirical relationships to address the issues of inefficient and uncertain evaluation by conventional molecular dynamics methods. Because we focus on liquid electrolytes consisting of organic solvents and lithium salts, our model requires dissociation ratio and effective diffusion size of lithium salts. Our method is applied to search for the compositional combinations of electrolytes with superior transport properties even at low temperatures. These results correlate well with experimental results.

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