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Xia DL, Ding SP, Ye Z, Yang C, Xu JT. Poly(ethylene oxide)- and Polyzwitterion-Based Thermoplastic Elastomers for Solid Electrolytes. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 17:2145. [PMID: 38730953 PMCID: PMC11085580 DOI: 10.3390/ma17092145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024]
Abstract
In this article, ABA triblock copolymer (tri-BCP) thermoplastic elastomers with poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) middle block and polyzwitterionic poly(4-vinylpyridine) propane-1-sulfonate (PVPS) outer blocks were synthesized. The PVPS-b-PEO-b-PVPS tri-BCPs were doped with lithium bis-(trifluoromethane-sulfonyl) imide (LiTFSI) and used as solid polyelectrolytes (SPEs). The thermal properties and microphase separation behavior of the tri-BCP/LiTFSI hybrids were studied. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) results revealed that all tri-BCPs formed asymmetric lamellar structures in the range of PVPS volume fractions from 12.9% to 26.1%. The microphase separation strength was enhanced with increasing the PVPS fraction (fPVPS) but was weakened as the doping ratio increased, which affected the thermal properties of the hybrids, such as melting temperature and glass transition temperature, to some extent. As compared with the PEO/LiTFSI hybrids, the PVPS-b-PEO-b-PVPS/LiTFSI hybrids could achieve both higher modulus and higher ionic conductivity, which were attributed to the physical crosslinking and the assistance in dissociation of Li+ ions by the PVPS blocks, respectively. On the basis of excellent electrical and mechanical performances, the PVPS-b-PEO-b-PVPS/LiTFSI hybrids can potentially be used as solid electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries.
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- National Key Laboratory of Biobased Transportation Fuel Technology, International Research Center for X Polymers, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; (D.-L.X.); (S.-P.D.); (Z.Y.); (C.Y.)
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Zhang ZK, Ding SP, Ye Z, Xia DL, Xu JT. Thermodynamic understanding the phase behavior of fully quaternized poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(4-vinylpyridine) block copolymers. POLYMER 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2022.125045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Zheng C, Zhang B, Bates FS, Lodge TP. Self-Assembly of Partially Charged Diblock Copolymer-Homopolymer Ternary Blends. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Caini Zheng
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Grim BJ, Green MD. Thermodynamics and Structure‐Property Relationships of Charged Block Polymers. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.202200036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Bradley J. Grim
- Chemical Engineering School for Engineering of Matter Transport and Energy Arizona State University Tempe AZ 85287
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- Chemical Engineering School for Engineering of Matter Transport and Energy Arizona State University Tempe AZ 85287
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Zhang Z, Ding S, Zhou Y, Ye Z, Wang R, Du B, Xu J. Influence of Salt Doping on the Entropy‐Driven Lower Disorder‐to‐Order Transition Behavior of Poly(ethylene oxide)‐
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‐Poly(4‐vinylpyridine). MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.202100303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Ze‐Kun Zhang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- Department of Chemistry, Division of Advanced Materials Science Pohang University of Science and Technology Pohang 790‐784 Korea
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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Kong X, Hou KJY, Qin J. Weakening of Solvation-Induced Ordering by Composition Fluctuation in Salt-Doped Block Polymers. ACS Macro Lett 2021; 10:545-550. [PMID: 35570763 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.1c00107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The spontaneous ordering of block polymers doped with ions is affected by both selective solvation and long-range Coulombic interaction. The mean-field treatment was recently shown to overestimate the solvation-induced ordering, requiring a large solvation radius to fit experimental phase diagrams, which may be relieved by including composition fluctuations. Treating the composition fluctuations in such systems is challenging because of the need of resolving heterogeneous dielectric profile that couples with the ordering itself. Starting from a minimal model, we develop a Landau-Brazovskiĭ expansion for the free energy of salt-doped block polymer near the ordering transition. It is found that the wavelength for typical composition fluctuations first decreases with salt doping, due to Coulombic interaction, then increases due to ionic solvation. Two mechanisms that weaken the solvation-enhanced ordering are identified: the Brazovskiĭ-type composition fluctuation that stabilizes disordered phase, and the coupling between mismatch in dispersion interaction and the dielectric permittivity through monomeric polarizability.
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- Xian Kong
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Shah NJ, Dadashi-Silab S, Galluzzo MD, Chakraborty S, Loo WS, Matyjaszewski K, Balsara NP. Effect of Added Salt on Disordered Poly(ethylene oxide)-Block-Poly(methyl methacrylate) Copolymer Electrolytes. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Neel J. Shah
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Gao KW, Loo WS, Snyder RL, Abel BA, Choo Y, Lee A, Teixeira SCM, Garetz BA, Coates GW, Balsara NP. Miscible Polyether/Poly(ether–acetal) Electrolyte Blends. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Kevin W. Gao
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York 11201, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York 11201, United States
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- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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Wang RY, Zhang ZK, Guo XS, Cao XH, Zhang TY, Tong ZZ, Xu JT, Du BY, Fan ZQ. Mechanistic Study of the Influence of Salt Species on the Lower Disorder-to-Order Transition Behavior of Poly(ethylene oxide)- b-Poly(ionic liquid)/Salt Hybrids. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Rui-Yang Wang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology (ATMT), Ministry of Education, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Cao X, Li J, Yang M, Yang J, Wang R, Zhang X, Xu J. Simultaneous Improvement of Ionic Conductivity and Mechanical Strength in Block Copolymer Electrolytes with Double Conductive Nanophases. Macromol Rapid Commun 2020; 41:e1900622. [DOI: 10.1002/marc.201900622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Revised: 01/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Xiao‐Han Cao
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and FunctionalizationDepartment of Polymer Science and EngineeringZhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and FunctionalizationDepartment of Polymer Science and EngineeringZhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and FunctionalizationDepartment of Polymer Science and EngineeringZhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and FunctionalizationDepartment of Polymer Science and EngineeringZhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and FunctionalizationDepartment of Polymer Science and EngineeringZhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and FunctionalizationDepartment of Polymer Science and EngineeringZhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and FunctionalizationDepartment of Polymer Science and EngineeringZhejiang University Hangzhou 310027 China
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Chintapalli M, Timachova K, Olson KR, Mecham SJ, DeSimone JM, Balsara NP. Lithium Salt Distribution and Thermodynamics in Electrolytes Based on Short Perfluoropolyether- block-Poly(ethylene oxide) Copolymers. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Mahati Chintapalli
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Lv C, Wang R, Gao J, Ding N, Dong S, Nie J, Xu J, Du B. PAA-b-PPO-b-PAA triblock copolymers with enhanced phase separation and inverse order-to-order phase transition upon increasing temperature. POLYMER 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.121982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Seo Y, Shen KH, Brown JR, Hall LM. Role of Solvation on Diffusion of Ions in Diblock Copolymers: Understanding the Molecular Weight Effect through Modeling. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:18455-18466. [PMID: 31674178 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b07227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Youngmi Seo
- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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Microphase separation of poly(propylene monothiocarbonate)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) block copolymers induced by differential interactions with salt. POLYMER 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.121745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Grzetic DJ, Delaney KT, Fredrickson GH. Field-Theoretic Study of Salt-Induced Order and Disorder in a Polarizable Diblock Copolymer. ACS Macro Lett 2019; 8:962-967. [PMID: 35619489 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We study a salt-doped polarizable symmetric diblock copolymer using a recently developed field theory that self-consistently embeds dielectric response, ion solvation energies, and van der Waals (vdW) attractions via the incorporation of segment polarizabilities and fixed dipoles. This field theory is amenable to direct simulation via the complex Langevin sampling technique and, thus, requires no approximations beyond the phenomenology of the underlying molecular model. We measure the shift in the order-disorder transition (ODT) of a diblock copolymer with salt-loading in field-theoretic simulations and observe rich behavior in which solvation, dilution and charge screening effects compete to determine whether the ordered or disordered phase is stabilized. At low salt concentrations, the salt behaves as a selective solvent, localizing into the high-dielectric domains and stabilizing the ordered phase. At high salt concentrations, however, the salt localization vanishes due to charge screening effects, and the salt behaves as a nonselective solvent that screens vdW attractions and stabilizes the disordered phase.
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Wang RY, Huang J, Guo XS, Cao XH, Zou SF, Tong ZZ, Xu JT, Du BY, Fan ZQ. Closed-Loop Phase Behavior of Block Copolymers in the Presence of Competitive Hydrogen-Bonding and Coulombic Interaction. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Rui-Yang Wang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology (ATMT), Ministry of Education, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Zhai C, Zhou H, Gao T, Zhao L, Lin S. Electrostatically Tuned Microdomain Morphology and Phase-Dependent Ion Transport Anisotropy in Single-Ion Conducting Block Copolyelectrolytes. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Chenxi Zhai
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Program, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Program, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control of Ministry of Education, School of Energy & Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Key Laboratory of Energy Thermal Conversion and Control of Ministry of Education, School of Energy & Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Program, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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Brown JR, Seo Y, Hall LM. Ion Correlation Effects in Salt-Doped Block Copolymers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:127801. [PMID: 29694088 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.127801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2017] [Revised: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We apply classical density functional theory to study how salt changes the microphase morphology of diblock copolymers. Polymers are freely jointed and one monomer type favorably interacts with ions, to account for the selective solvation that arises from different dielectric constants of the microphases. By including correlations from liquid state theory of an unbound reference fluid, the theory can treat chain behavior, microphase separation, ion correlations, and preferential solvation, at the same coarse-grained level. We show good agreement with molecular dynamics simulations.
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- Jonathan R Brown
- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 151 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Wang RY, Guo XS, Fan B, Zou SF, Cao XH, Tong ZZ, Xu JT, Du BY, Fan ZQ. Design and Regulation of Lower Disorder-to-Order Transition Behavior in the Strongly Interacting Block Copolymers. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Rui-Yang Wang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology (ATMT), Ministry of Education, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Gartner TE, Morris MA, Shelton CK, Dura JA, Epps TH. Quantifying Lithium Salt and Polymer Density Distributions in Nanostructured Ion-Conducting Block Polymers. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Shuyi Xie
- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of
Chemical Engineering and Materials
Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of
Chemical Engineering and Materials
Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Huang H, Zhong B, Zu X, Luo H, Lin W, Zhang M, Zhong Y, Yi G. Fabrication of Ordered Nanopattern by using ABC Triblock Copolymer with Salt in Toluene. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2017; 12:491. [PMID: 28812244 PMCID: PMC5557723 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-017-2260-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2017] [Accepted: 08/01/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Ordered nanopatterns of triblock copolymer polystyrene-block-poly(2-vinylpyridine)-block- poly (ethylene oxide)(PS-b-P2VP-b-PEO) have been achieved by the addition of lithium chloride (LiCl). The morphological and structural evolution of PS-b-P2VP-b-PEO/LiCl thin films were systematically investigated by varying different experimental parameters, including the treatment for polymer solution after the addition of LiCl, the time scale of ultrasonic treatment and the molar ratio of Li+ ions to the total number of oxygen atoms (O) in PEO block and the nitrogen atoms (N) in P2VP block. When toluene was used as the solvent for LiCl, ordered nanopattern with cylinders or nanostripes could be obtained after spin-coating. The mechanism of nanopattern transformation was related to the loading of LiCl in different microdomains.
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- Hailiang Huang
- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, People's Republic of China.
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Sethuraman V, Mogurampelly S, Ganesan V. Multiscale Simulations of Lamellar PS–PEO Block Copolymers Doped with LiPF6 Ions. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Vaidyanathan Sethuraman
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Wang RY, Wang XY, Fan B, Xu JT, Fan ZQ. Microphase separation and crystallization behaviors of bi-phased triblock terpolymers with a competitively dissolved middle block. POLYMER 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2017.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Huang J, Wang RY, Xu JT, Fan ZQ. Hydrogen-bonding induced abnormal microphase separation behavior of poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(tert-butyl acrylate-co-acrylic acid) block copolymers. POLYMER 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2016.07.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Metwalli E, Rasool M, Brunner S, Müller-Buschbaum P. Lithium-Salt-Containing High-Molecular-Weight Polystyrene-block-Polyethylene Oxide Block Copolymer Films. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:2882-2889. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2015] [Revised: 06/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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McIntosh LD, Schulze MW, Irwin MT, Hillmyer MA, Lodge TP. Evolution of Morphology, Modulus, and Conductivity in Polymer Electrolytes Prepared via Polymerization-Induced Phase Separation. Macromolecules 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/ma502281k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lucas D. McIntosh
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and ‡Department of
Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and ‡Department of
Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and ‡Department of
Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and ‡Department of
Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and ‡Department of
Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Picco AS, Knoll W, Ceolín M, Azzaroni O. Mesophase Transformation in Amphiphilic Hyperbranched Polymers Induced by Transition Metal Ion Complexation. Creating Well-Defined Metallo-Supramolecular Assemblies from "Ill-Defined" Building Blocks. ACS Macro Lett 2015; 4:94-100. [PMID: 35596380 DOI: 10.1021/mz500688r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Self-organized metallo-supramolecular heterostructures have potential applications that include molecular electronics, photovoltaics, and magnetic devices, among other examples. The main challenge that scientists typically face when designing advanced supramolecular materials is to achieve structurally defined assemblies by resolving conflicting demands on the topological and/or chemical features of the constituting building blocks. Accordingly, the formation of well-defined metallo-supramolecular arrays using ill-defined, highly polydisperse, self-assemblable starting compounds marks a profound departure from traditional supramolecular paradigms. The present work describes the first observation of spontaneous mesophase transformation of well-defined metallo-supramolecular assemblies in solution as a result of the complexation of transition metal ions into the ionophilic domains of highly branched unimolecular micelles constituted of N-acylated hyperbranched polyethylenimine. Experimental results based on a combination of different synchrotron-based techniques provide unprecedented experimental evidence revealing that ion-induced self-assembly of amphiphilic hyperbranched polymers can be used to achieve highly ordered metallo-supramolecular structures not only in solution but also on solid surfaces. We believe that this emerging conceptual framework can open extremely interesting new synthetic and technological opportunities in the area of self-assembly of well-defined metallo-supramolecular architectures obtained from building blocks with poor structural regularity but easily provided in large quantities by simple and inexpensive preparative chemistries.
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- Agustín S. Picco
- Instituto de Investigaciones
Fisicoquímicas
Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CONICET, CC 16 − Suc. 4, 1900 La
Plata, Argentina
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- Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Donau-City-Strasse
1, 1220 Vienna, Austria
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- Instituto de Investigaciones
Fisicoquímicas
Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CONICET, CC 16 − Suc. 4, 1900 La
Plata, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones
Fisicoquímicas
Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CONICET, CC 16 − Suc. 4, 1900 La
Plata, Argentina
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Huang J, Wang RY, Tong ZZ, Xu JT, Fan ZQ. Influence of Ionic Species on the Microphase Separation Behavior of PCL-b-PEO/Salt Hybrids. Macromolecules 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/ma502057q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jie Huang
- MOE Key
Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key
Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key
Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key
Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- MOE Key
Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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We provide a perspective on the thermodynamics of salt-doped block copolymer electrolytes consisting of ion-conducting and inert blocks, taking poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polystyrene and lithium salts as an example. We focus on the origin for enhanced immiscibility between the constituent blocks upon addition of lithium salts and discuss issues from selected experiments and from our recent self-consistent field study.
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- Issei Nakamura
- State
Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute
of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, People’s Republic of China
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- Division
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Sing CE, Olvera de la Cruz M. Polyelectrolyte Blends and Nontrivial Behavior in Effective Flory-Huggins Parameters. ACS Macro Lett 2014; 3:698-702. [PMID: 35590712 DOI: 10.1021/mz500202n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
The Flory χ-parameter is a ubiquitous description of the extent of immiscibility that is apparent between two or more polymeric species. While the formalism is a powerful one in most systems of technological interest, experimentally obtaining this parameter requires the assumption of an underlying theoretical model. For charged systems, mapping to analogous uncharged systems is often assumed by introducing an "effective χ", χeff. Random phase approximation (RPA) analysis based on the Hamiltonian used for recent self-consistent field theory-liquid-state theories (SCFT-LS) demonstrates that χeff incorporates molecular-level details such as charge ordering. Even for simple polyelectrolyte blends where the bare χ is kept constant, the observed χeff will drastically change as a function of composition; prediction of heterogeneous polyelectrolyte material phase behavior using χeff is thus highly nontrivial since an understanding of local charge structure is required.
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- Charles E. Sing
- Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science
and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Wang X, Thelen JL, Teran AA, Chintapalli M, Nakamura I, Wang ZG, Newstein MC, Balsara NP, Garetz BA. Evolution of Grain Structure during Disorder-to-Order Transitions in a Block Copolymer/Salt Mixture Studied by Depolarized Light Scattering. Macromolecules 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/ma501166p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Xin Wang
- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York 11201, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Environmental
Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Environmental
Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Environmental
Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Division
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York 11201, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Environmental
Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York 11201, United States
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Influence of different inorganic salts on crystallization-driven morphological transformation of PCL-b-PEO micelles in aqueous solutions. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-014-1512-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Sing CE, Zwanikken JW, Olvera de la Cruz M. Electrostatic control of block copolymer morphology. NATURE MATERIALS 2014; 13:694-8. [PMID: 24907928 DOI: 10.1038/nmat4001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2013] [Accepted: 04/03/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
Energy storage is at present one of the foremost issues society faces. However, material challenges now serve as bottlenecks in technological progress. Lithium-ion batteries are the current gold standard to meet energy storage needs; however, they are limited owing to the inherent instability of liquid electrolytes. Block copolymers can self-assemble into nanostructures that simultaneously facilitate ion transport and provide mechanical stability. The ions themselves have a profound, yet previously unpredictable, effect on how these nanostructures assemble and thus the efficiency of ion transport. Here we demonstrate that varying the charge of a block copolymer is a powerful mechanism to predictably tune nanostructures. In particular, we demonstrate that highly asymmetric charge cohesion effects can induce the formation of nanostructures that are inaccessible to conventional uncharged block copolymers, including percolated phases desired for ion transport. This vastly expands the design space for block copolymer materials and is informative for the versatile design of battery electrolyte materials.
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Asad Ayoubi M, Almdal K, Zhu K, Nyström B, Olsson U, Piculell L. Lamellar Microdomains of Block-Copolymer-Based Ionic Supramolecules Exhibiting a Hierarchical Self-Assembly. Macromolecules 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/ma500232y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mehran Asad Ayoubi
- Division
of Physical Chemistry, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, SE-22 100 Lund, Sweden
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- Department
of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Nanotech,
Building 423, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Division
of Physical Chemistry, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, SE-22 100 Lund, Sweden
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- Division
of Physical Chemistry, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University, SE-22 100 Lund, Sweden
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Huang J, Tong ZZ, Zhou B, Xu JT, Fan ZQ. Phase behavior of LiClO4-doped poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) hybrids in the presence of competitive interactions. POLYMER 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Teran AA, Balsara NP. Thermodynamics of Block Copolymers with and without Salt. J Phys Chem B 2013; 118:4-17. [DOI: 10.1021/jp408079z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alexander A. Teran
- Environmental
Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Environmental
Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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