Abstract
Lithium-glyme solvated ionic liquids (Li-G SILs) and superconcentrated electrolyte solutions (SCESs) are expected to be promising electrolytes for next-generation lithium secondary batteries. The former consists of only the oligoether glyme solvated lithium ion and its counteranion, and the latter contains no full solvated Li+ ion by the solvents due to the extremely high Li salt concentration. Although both of them are similar to each other, it is still unclear that both should be room-temperature ionic liquids. To distinctly define them, speciation analyses were performed with the Li-G SIL and the aqueous SCES to evaluate the free solvent concentration in these solutions with a new Raman/infrared spectral analysis technique called complementary least-squares analysis. Furthermore, from a thermodynamic point of view, we investigated the solvent activity and activity coefficient in the gas phase equilibrated with sample solutions and found they can be good criteria for SILs.
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