Fig. 1: Sustainable fluorine-free polymer solid electrolyte interface.

a Fluorine-free SEI layer design for solid polymer electrolyte. b Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations of the binding energies of Li ions and anionic BOB- with VC, MBA and PVM-GPE respectively. c Electrostatic potential (ESP) graphs for VC, MBA and PVM-GPE. d LUMO and HOMO energy diagrams for VC, MBA and PVM-GPE and their optimised structures. e Cycling performance of this work in comparison with the current mainstream polymer electrolytes.