This paper reports dielectric spectroscopic studies completed by
electrochemical measurements in combination
with DSC and PFG-NMR investigations to study the charge carrier
transport in gel electrolytes, which were
prepared by photoinitiated polymerization of oligo(ethylene
glycol)23 dimethacrylate [(EG)23DMA] in
the
presence of oligo(ethylene glycol)11dimethyl ether
[(EG)11DME] as plasticizer and
LiCF3SO3. The resulting
films show a glass transition at about −60 °C and the melting of
the plasticizer around −12 °C. Below the
glass transition two relaxation processes were observed by dielectric
spectroscopy, which most likely are to
be related to the γ relaxation of the EG groups and the β
relaxation of the methacrylate groups. The high-temperature behavior of the dielectric response is dominated by the
conductivity, which is weakly dependent
on the frequency in this temperature range. The permittivity goes
through a maximum at room temperature
and decreases with further enhancement of the temperature in connection
with an increase in ionic aggregation
indicated by growing deviations from the Nernst−Einstein
relationship. These deviations expressed as a
Haven ratio are discussed as the contribution of bounded species that
do not take part in the conductivity to
the overall diffusivity, either by an enlarged content of these
species, c
b, or by an enhancement of
their
self-diffusivity, D
b.