Liquid crystals meet energy storage: Deciphering the role of the mosaicity in structure/ionic conductivity correlation within mesomorphic el

For enabling next generation electrochemical energy storage devices with higher ionic transport and safety performances, beyond state-of-the-art liquid electrolytes have to be developed. In doing so, improving our understanding of the multiscale structure/transport interplay within solid-state organic electrolytes will become instrumental to address the associated scientific and technological challenges. Directing the hierarchical self-assembly of nanoscale ionic pathways appears as a promising strategy to allow the advent of such higher performance electrolytes1. Mastering defects in functional organic materials, which plays crucial roles in many nano-science/technology applications, is here applied within the context of directional confined ionic transport2 (nanoionics3) in functional soft matter. Our primary goal resumes at understanding and describing the role of mosaicity in soft matter-based electrolytes to leverage their (full) potential within the field of energy storage.