Tuning ion conducting pathways using holographic polymerization.
basic_science · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 22148891.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1021/nl203599y.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
Polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) with high and controlled ionic conductivity are important for energy-related applications, such as solid-state batteries and fuel cells. Herein we disclose a new strategy to fabricate long-range ordered PEMs with tunable ion conducting pathways using a holographic polymerization (HP) method. By incorporating polymer electrolyte into the carefully selected HP system, electrolyte layers/channels with length scales of a few tens of nanometers to micrometers can be formed with controlled orientation and anisotropy; ionic conductivity anisotropy as high as 37 has been achieved.
Medical subject headings
- Holography
- Membranes, Artificial
- Molecular Imprinting
- Nanostructures
- Polymers