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Wang X, Thelen JL, Li X, Balsara NP, Garetz BA. Exponential vs Gaussian Correlation Functions in the Characterization of Block Copolymer Grain Structure by Depolarized Light Scattering. Macromolecules 2024; 57:54-62. [PMID: 38222028 PMCID: PMC10782480 DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.3c01835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
Abstract
Block copolymer (BCP) grain structure affects the mechanical, optical, and electrical properties of BCP materials, making the accurate characterization of this grain structure an important goal. In this study, improved BCP grain parameters were obtained by employing an exponentially decaying correlation function within the ellipsoidal grain model, instead of the Gaussian correlation function that was used in previous work. The exponential correlation function provides a better fit to the experimental depolarized light scattering data, which outweighs the disadvantage that it requires numerical integration to obtain the model scattered intensity.
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- Xin Wang
- Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU Tandon 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, NYU Tandon 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 Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York 11201, United States
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Min J, Bae S, Kawaguchi D, Tanaka K, Park MJ. Enhanced ionic conductivity in block copolymer electrolytes through interfacial passivation using mixed ionic liquids. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:174906. [PMID: 37921254 DOI: 10.1063/5.0173322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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We present a strategic approach for enhancing the ionic conductivity of block copolymer electrolytes. This was achieved by introducing mixed ionic liquids (ILs) with varying molar ratios, wherein the imidazolium cation was paired with either tetrafluoroborate (BF4) anion or bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (TFSI) anion. Two polymer matrices, poly(4-styrenesulfonate)-b-polymethylbutylene (SSMB) and poly(4-styrenesulfonyl (trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide)-b-polymethylbutylene (STMB), were synthesized for this purpose. All the SSMB and STMB containing mixed ILs showed hexagonal cylindrical structures, but the type of tethered acid group significantly influenced the interfacial properties. STMB electrolytes demonstrated enhanced segregation strength, which was attributed to strengthened Coulomb and hydrogen bonding interactions in the ionic domains, where the ILs were uniformly distributed. In contrast, the SSMB electrolytes exhibited increased concentration fluctuations because the BF4 anions were selectively sequestered at the block interfaces. This resulted in the effective confinement of imidazolium TFSI along the ionic domains, thereby preventing ion trapping in dead zones and facilitating rapid ion diffusion. Consequently, the SSMB electrolytes with mixed ILs demonstrated significantly improved ionic conductivities, surpassing the expected values based on the arithmetic average of the conductivities of each IL, whereas the ionic conductivity of the STMB was aligned with the expected average. The methodology explored in this study holds great promise for the development of solid-state polymer electrolytes.
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- Jaemin Min
- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Center for Polymer Interface and Molecular Adhesion Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Center for Polymer Interface and Molecular Adhesion Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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Shi X, Yao Y, Zhang J, Corrigan N, Boyer C. Polymerization Induced Microphase Separation of ABC Triblock Copolymers for 3D Printing Nanostructured Materials. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023:e2305268. [PMID: 37661582 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202305268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2023] [Revised: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
Abstract
Polymerization-induced microphase separation (PIMS) is a versatile technique for producing nanostructured materials. In previous PIMS studies, the predominant approach involved employing homopolymers as macromolecular chain transfer agents (macroCTAs) to mediate the formation of nanostructured materials. In this article, the use of AB diblock copolymers as macroCTAs to design PIMS systems for 3D printing of nanostructured materials is investigated. Specifically, the influence of diblock copolymer composition and block sequence on the resulting nanostructures, and their subsequent impact on bulk properties is systematically investigated. Through careful manipulation of the A/B block ratios, the morphology and size of the nanodomains are successfully controlled. Remarkably, the sequence of A and B blocks significantly affects the microphase separation process, resulting in distinct morphologies. The effect can be attributed to changes in the interaction parameters (χAB , χBC , χAC ) between the different block segments. Furthermore, the block sequence and composition exert profound influence on the thermomechanical, tensile, and swelling properties of 3D printed nanostructured materials. By leveraging this knowledge, it becomes possible to design advanced 3D printable materials with tailored properties, opening new avenues for material engineering.
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- Xiaobing Shi
- Cluster for Advanced Macromolecular Design, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Electron Microscope Unit, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Cluster for Advanced Macromolecular Design, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Centre for Nanomedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Cluster for Advanced Macromolecular Design, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Australian Centre for Nanomedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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Zhang B, Cui S, Lodge TP, Bates FS. Structure and Phase Behavior of Bottlebrush Diblock Copolymer-Linear Homopolymer Ternary Blends. Macromolecules 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c02434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Bo Zhang
- 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
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- 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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Grundy LS, Fu S, Galluzzo MD, Balsara NP. The Effect of Annealing on the Grain Structure and Ionic Conductivity of Block Copolymer Electrolytes. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lorena S. Grundy
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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Grundy LS, Galluzzo MD, Loo WS, Fong AY, Balsara NP, Takacs CJ. Inaccessible Polarization-Induced Phase Transitions in a Block Copolymer Electrolyte: An Unconventional Mechanism for the Limiting Current. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lorena S. Grundy
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 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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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science 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
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Sharon D, Deng C, Bennington P, Webb MA, Patel SN, de Pablo JJ, Nealey PF. Critical Percolation Threshold for Solvation-Site Connectivity in Polymer Electrolyte Mixtures. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Daniel Sharon
- Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, 41 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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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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Kim J, Jeong KJ, Kim K, Son CY, Park MJ. Enhanced Electrochemical Properties of Block Copolymer Electrolytes with Blended End-Functionalized Homopolymers. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c02461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jihoon Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea 790-784
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea 790-784
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea 790-784
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea 790-784
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea 790-784
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Lang C, Kumar M, Hickey RJ. Current status and future directions of self-assembled block copolymer membranes for molecular separations. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:10405-10415. [PMID: 34768280 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01368h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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One of the most efficient and promising separation alternatives to thermal methods such as distillation is the use of polymeric membranes that separate mixtures based on molecular size or chemical affinity. Self-assembled block copolymer membranes have gained considerable attention within the membrane field due to precise control over nanoscale structure, pore size, and chemical versatility. Despite the rapid progress and excitement, a significant hurdle in using block copolymer membranes for nanometer and sub-nanometer separations such as nanofiltration and reverse osmosis is the lower limit on domain size features. Strategies such as polymer post-functionalization, self-assembly of oligomers, liquid crystals, and random copolymers, or incorporation of artificial/natural channels within block copolymer materials are future directions with the potential to overcome current limitations with respect to separation size.
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- Chao Lang
- South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, School of Molecular Science and Engineering, Guangzhou 510640, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16801, USA.
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- Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16801, USA.
- Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16801, USA
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Galluzzo MD, Grundy LS, Takacs CJ, Cao C, Steinrück HG, Fu S, Rivas Valadez MA, Toney MF, Balsara NP. Orientation-Dependent Distortion of Lamellae in a Block Copolymer Electrolyte under DC Polarization. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Michael D. Galluzzo
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science 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
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
- Department Chemie, Universität Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science 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
- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Sharon D, Bennington P, Webb MA, Deng C, de Pablo JJ, Patel SN, Nealey PF. Molecular Level Differences in Ionic Solvation and Transport Behavior in Ethylene Oxide-Based Homopolymer and Block Copolymer Electrolytes. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:3180-3190. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c12538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Daniel Sharon
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, 41 Olden St, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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Zhang B, Xie S, Lodge TP, Bates FS. Phase Behavior of Diblock Copolymer–Homopolymer Ternary Blends with a Compositionally Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Bo Zhang
- 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
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
- 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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Microphase-separated structures of ion gels consisting of ABA-type block copolymers and an ionic liquid: A key to escape from the trade-off between mechanical and transport properties. POLYMER 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Sharon D, Bennington P, Dolejsi M, Webb MA, Dong BX, de Pablo JJ, Nealey PF, Patel SN. Intrinsic Ion Transport Properties of Block Copolymer Electrolytes. ACS NANO 2020; 14:8902-8914. [PMID: 32496776 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Knowledge of intrinsic properties is of central importance for materials design and assessing suitability for specific applications. Self-assembling block copolymer electrolytes (BCEs) are of great interest for applications in solid-state energy storage devices. A fundamental understanding of ion transport properties, however, is hindered by the difficulty in deconvoluting extrinsic factors, such as defects, from intrinsic factors, such as the presence of interfaces between the domains. Here, we quantify the intrinsic ion transport properties of a model BCE system consisting of poly(styrene-block-ethylene oxide) (SEO) and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) salt using a generalizable strategy of depositing thin films on interdigitated electrodes and self-assembling fully connected parallel lamellar structures throughout the films. Comparison between conductivity in homopolymer poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-LiTFSI electrolytes and the analogous conducting material in SEO over a range of salt concentrations (r, molar ratio of lithium ion to ethylene oxide repeat units) and temperatures reveals that between 20% and 50% of the PEO in SEO is inactive. Using mean-field theory calculations of the domain structure and monomer concentration profiles at domain interfaces-both of which vary substantially with salt concentration-the fraction of inactive PEO in the SEO, as derived from conductivity measurements, can be quantitatively reconciled with the fraction of PEO that is mixed with greater than a few volume percent of polystyrene. Despite the detrimental interfacial effects for ion transport in BCEs, the intrinsic conductivity of the SEO studied here (ca. 10-3 S/cm at 90 °C, r = 0.085) is an order of magnitude higher than reported values from bulk samples of similar molecular weight SEO (ca. 10-4 S/cm at 90 °C, r = 0.085). Overall, this work provides motivation and methods for pursuing improved BCE chemical design, interfacial engineering, and processing.
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- Daniel Sharon
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Center for Molecular Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, 50-70 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Center for Molecular Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Center for Molecular Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
- Center for Molecular Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, 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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Effect of Olefin-based Compatibilizers on the Formation of Cocontinuous Structure in Immiscible HDPE/iPP Blends. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-020-2433-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Zhang X, Daigle JC, Zaghib K. Comprehensive Review of Polymer Architecture for All-Solid-State Lithium Rechargeable Batteries. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 13:E2488. [PMID: 32486029 PMCID: PMC7321136 DOI: 10.3390/ma13112488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2020] [Revised: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
Solid-state batteries are an emerging option for next-generation traction batteries because they are safe and have a high energy density. Accordingly, in polymer research, one of the main goals is to achieve solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) that could be facilely fabricated into any preferred size of thin films with high ionic conductivity as well as favorable mechanical properties. In particular, in the past two decades, many polymer materials of various structures have been applied to improve the performance of SPEs. In this review, the influences of polymer architecture on the physical and electrochemical properties of an SPE in lithium solid polymer batteries are systematically summarized. The discussion mainly focuses on four principal categories: linear, comb-like, hyper-branched, and crosslinked polymers, which have been widely reported in recent investigations as capable of optimizing the balance between mechanical resistance, ionic conductivity, and electrochemical stability. This paper presents new insights into the design and exploration of novel high-performance SPEs for lithium solid polymer batteries.
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- Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage (CETEES), Hydro-Québec, 1806, Lionel-Boulet Blvd., Varennes, QC J3X 1S1, Canada; (X.Z.); (J.-C.D.)
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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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Galluzzo MD, Loo WS, Wang AA, Walton A, Maslyn JA, Balsara NP. Measurement of Three Transport Coefficients and the Thermodynamic Factor in Block Copolymer Electrolytes with Different Morphologies. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:921-935. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b11066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Michael D. Galluzzo
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science 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
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Materials Science 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
- Materials Science 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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Zhang J, Kremer K, Michels JJ, Daoulas KC. Exploring Disordered Morphologies of Blends and Block Copolymers for Light-Emitting Diodes with Mesoscopic Simulations. Macromolecules 2020; 53:523-538. [PMID: 32655190 PMCID: PMC7343280 DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Revised: 12/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Recently,
disordered blends of semiconducting and insulating polymers have been
used to prepare light-emitting diodes with increased luminous efficiency.
Because the thermodynamic stability of the disordered phase in blends
is limited, equivalent diblock copolymers (BCPs) could be an alternative.
However, the choice between disordered blends and BCPs requires understanding
structural differences and their effect on charge carrier transport.
Using a hybrid mesoscopic model, we simulate blends and equivalent
BCPs of two representative semiconducting and insulating polymers:
poly(p-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) and polyacrylate.
The immiscibility is varied to mimic annealing at different temperatures.
We find stable or metastable disordered morphologies until we reach
the mean-field (MF) spinodal. Disordered morphologies are heterogeneous
because of thermal fluctuations and local segregation. Near the MF
spinodal, segregation is stronger in BCPs than in the blends, even
though the immiscibility, normalized by the MF spinodal, is the same.
We link the spatial distribution of PPV with electric conductance.
We predict that the immiscibility (temperature at which the layer
is annealed) affects electrical percolation much stronger in BCPs
than in blends. Differences in the local structure and percolation
between blends and BCPs are enhanced at a high insulator content.
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- Jianrui Zhang
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Gao KW, Jiang X, Hoffman ZJ, Sethi GK, Chakraborty S, Villaluenga I, Balsara NP. Optimizing the monomer structure of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane for ion transport in hybrid organic–inorganic block copolymers. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20190073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Kevin W. Gao
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California Berkeley California 94720
- Materials Sciences DivisionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
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- Materials Sciences DivisionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California Berkeley California 94720
- Materials Sciences DivisionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
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- Materials Sciences DivisionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of California Berkeley California 94720
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California Berkeley California 94720
- Materials Sciences DivisionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California Berkeley California 94720
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California Berkeley California 94720
- Materials Sciences DivisionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
- Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California 94720
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Xie S, Meyer DJ, Wang E, Bates FS, Lodge TP. Structure and Properties of Bicontinuous Microemulsions from Salt-Doped Ternary Polymer Blends. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Morris MA, Sung SH, Ketkar PM, Dura JA, Nieuwendaal RC, Epps TH. Enhanced Conductivity via Homopolymer-Rich Pathways in Block Polymer-Blended Electrolytes. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Hashimoto K, Hirasawa M, Kokubo H, Tamate R, Li X, Shibayama M, Watanabe M. Transport and Mechanical Properties of ABA-type Triblock Copolymer Ion Gels Correlated with Their Microstructures. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Kei Hashimoto
- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1, Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8581, Chiba, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8581, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Kanagawa, Japan
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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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Shim J, Bates FS, Lodge TP. Bicontinuous Microemulsions in Partially Charged Ternary Polymer Blends. ACS Macro Lett 2019; 8:1166-1171. [PMID: 35619439 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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We describe the phase behavior of a partially charged ternary polymer blend model system, comprising a compositionally symmetric poly[(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate-co-oligo(ethylene glycol) propyl sodium sulfonate methacrylate)]-b-polystyrene (POEGMA23-PS) diblock polymer and the constituent POEGMA23 and PS homopolymers, along the volumetrically symmetric isopleth, where 23 denotes the percentage of charged monomers in the POEGMA chain. Small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering and dynamic mechanical spectroscopy measurements reveal morphological transitions from a layered superlattice to swollen lamellae to a bicontinuous microemulsion (BμE), followed by macroscopic phase separation, with increasing homopolymer content. The BμE channel occurs between 85 and 90% homopolymer addition, positioned approximately at the isotropic Lifshitz composition predicted by mean-field theory for neutral systems. The resulting BμE morphology exhibits a periodicity of 26 nm, yielding a mesoscopically structured but macroscopically disordered bicontinuous structure. That this structure can be achieved in a charged polymer system is surprising, given the huge asymmetries typically induced by adding charge to either diblock copolymers or binary polymer blends.
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- Jimin Shim
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering & 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 & Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Wang J, Li L, Yang W, Yan Z, Zhou Y, Wang B, Zhang B, Bu W. Sub-10 nm Scale Lamellar Structures with a High Degree of Long-Range Order Fabricated by Orthogonal Self-Assembly of Crown Ether/Secondary Dialkylammonium Recognition and Metal···Metal/π-π Interactions. ACS Macro Lett 2019; 8:1012-1016. [PMID: 35619497 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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We here present an orthogonal self-assembly strategy to fabricate a series of metallosupramolecular polymers by coupling planar platinum(II) complexes and starlike poly(ε-caprolactone), through Pt···Pt/π-π interactions and host-guest recognition between secondary dialkylammonium salts and crown ether groups. The solid metallosupramolecular polymers exhibit sub-10 nm scale lamellar structures and one of them occupies an extraordinary degree of long-range order. The platinum(II) complexes can be regarded as an individual supramolecular block to microphase segregate the polymeric segment. Moreover, the metallosupramolecular polymers show intense luminescence and appreciable proton conductivity, originating from these two supramolecular connection modes, respectively. This work paves the way for fabricating metallosupramolecular polymers showing both highly ordered nanostructures and multifunctional properties.
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- Jun Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
- State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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Richards JJ, Riley JK. Dielectric RheoSANS: a mutual electrical and rheological characterization technique using small-angle neutron scattering. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2019.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kambe Y, Arges CG, Czaplewski DA, Dolejsi M, Krishnan S, Stoykovich MP, de Pablo JJ, Nealey PF. Role of Defects in Ion Transport in Block Copolymer Electrolytes. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:4684-4691. [PMID: 31250653 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Ion conducting block copolymers can overcome traditional limitations of homopolymer electrolytes by phase separating into nanoarchitectures that can be simultaneously optimized for two or more orthogonal material properties such as high ionic conductivity and mechanical stability. A key challenge in understanding the ion transport properties of these materials is the difficulty of extracting structure-function relationships without having complete knowledge of all nanoscale transport pathways in bulk samples. Here we demonstrate a method for deriving structure-transport relationships for ion conducting block copolymers using thin films and interdigitated electrodes. Well-defined and directly imaged structure in films of poly(styrene)-block-poly(2-vinylpyridine) is controlled using techniques of directed self-assembly then the poly(2-vinylpyridine) is selectively converted into an ion conductor. The ion conductivity is found to be directly proportional to the total number of connected paths between electrodes and the path length. A single defect such as a dislocation anywhere in the path of an ion conducting route disconnects and precludes that pathway from contributing to the conductivity and results in an increase in the dielectric parameter of the film. When all the ion conduction pathways are blocked between electrodes, the conductivity is negligible, 4 orders of magnitude lower compared to a completely connected morphology and the dielectric parameter increases by a factor of 50. These results have profound implications for the interpretation, design, and processing of block copolymer electrolytes for applications as ion conducting membranes.
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- Yu Kambe
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering , University of Chicago , 5640 S. Ellis Avenue , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
- Center for Molecular Engineering, Materials Science Division , Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 S. Cass Ave nue, Lemont , Illinois 60439 , United States
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- Cain Department of Chemical Engineering , Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge , Louisiana 70803 , United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials , Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 S. Cass Avenue , Lemont , Illinois 60439 , United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering , University of Chicago , 5640 S. Ellis Avenue , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
- Center for Molecular Engineering, Materials Science Division , Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 S. Cass Ave nue, Lemont , Illinois 60439 , United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering , University of Chicago , 5640 S. Ellis Avenue , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering , University of Chicago , 5640 S. Ellis Avenue , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering , University of Chicago , 5640 S. Ellis Avenue , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
- Center for Molecular Engineering, Materials Science Division , Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 S. Cass Ave nue, Lemont , Illinois 60439 , United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering , University of Chicago , 5640 S. Ellis Avenue , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
- Center for Molecular Engineering, Materials Science Division , Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 S. Cass Ave nue, Lemont , Illinois 60439 , United States
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Ultrafiltration membranes from polymerization of self-assembled Pluronic block copolymer mesophases. J Memb Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.02.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Schneider LY, Müller M. Engineering Scale Simulation of Nonequilibrium Network Phases for Battery Electrolytes. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ludwig Y. Schneider
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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Li X, Loo WS, Jiang X, Wang X, Galluzzo MD, Mongcopa KI, Wang AA, Balsara NP, Garetz BA. Confined versus Unconfined Crystallization in Block Copolymer/Salt Mixtures Studied by Depolarized Light Scattering. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Xiuhong Li
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York 11201, 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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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, New York 11201, 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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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, 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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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, 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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Guan J, Shen J, Chen X, Wang H, Chen Q, Li J, Li Y. Crystal Forms and Microphase Structures of Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) Physically and Chemically Incorporated with Ionic Liquids. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jipeng Guan
- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Rd., Hangzhou 310036, People’s Republic of China
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, , Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2019, Jialuo Road, Jiading District, Shanghai 201800, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Rd., Hangzhou 310036, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Rd., Hangzhou 310036, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Rd., Hangzhou 310036, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Rd., Hangzhou 310036, People’s Republic of China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, , Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2019, Jialuo Road, Jiading District, Shanghai 201800, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 16 Xuelin Rd., Hangzhou 310036, People’s Republic of China
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Kwon SJ, Kim T, Jung BM, Lee SB, Choi UH. Multifunctional Epoxy-Based Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Solid-State Supercapacitors. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:35108-35117. [PMID: 30230315 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b11016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) have drawn attention for promising multifunctional electrolytes requiring very good mechanical properties and ionic conductivity. To develop a safe SPE for energy storage applications, mechanically robust cross-linked epoxy matrix is combined with fast ion-diffusing ionic liquid/lithium salt electrolyte (ILE) via a simple one-pot curing process. The epoxy-rich SPEs show higher Young's modulus ( E), with higher glass transition temperature ( Tg) but lower ionic conductivity (σdc) with a higher activation energy, compared to the ILE-rich SPEs. The incorporation of inorganic robust Al2O3 nanowire simultaneously provides excellent mechanical robustness ( E ≈ 1 GPa at 25 °C) and good conductivity (σdc ≈ 2.9 × 10-4 S/cm at 25 °C) to the SPE. This suggests that the SPE has a bicontinuous microphase separation into ILE-rich and epoxy-rich microdomain, where ILE continuous conducting phases are intertwined with a sturdy cross-linked amorphous epoxy framework, supported by the observation of the two Tgs and low tortuosity as well as the microstructural investigation. After assembling the SPE with activated carbon electrodes, we successfully demonstrate the supercapacitor performance, exhibiting high energy and power density (75 W h/kg at 382 W/kg and 9.3 kW/kg at 44 W h/kg). This facile strategy holds tremendous potential to advance multifunctional energy storage technology for next-generation electric vehicles.
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- Suk Jin Kwon
- Functional Composite Department , Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) , Changwon 51508 , Korea
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- Functional Composite Department , Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) , Changwon 51508 , Korea
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- Functional Composite Department , Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) , Changwon 51508 , Korea
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- Functional Composite Department , Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) , Changwon 51508 , Korea
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- Department of Polymer Engineering , Pukyong National University , Busan 48547 , Korea
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Shen KH, Brown JR, Hall LM. Diffusion in Lamellae, Cylinders, and Double Gyroid Block Copolymer Nanostructures. ACS Macro Lett 2018; 7:1092-1098. [PMID: 35632941 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We study transport of penetrants through nanoscale morphologies motivated by common block copolymer morphologies, using confined random walks and coarse-grained simulations. Diffusion through randomly oriented grains is 1/3 for cylinder and 2/3 for lamellar morphologies versus an unconstrained (homopolymer) system, as previously understood. Diffusion in the double gyroid structure depends on the volume fraction and is 0.47-0.55 through the minority phase at 30-50 vol % and 0.73-0.80 through the majority at 50-70 vol %. Thus, among randomly oriented standard minority phase structures with no grain boundary effects, lamellae is preferable for transport.
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- Kuan-Hsuan Shen
- 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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Lee D, Jung HY, Park MJ. Solid-State Polymer Electrolytes Based on AB 3-Type Miktoarm Star Copolymers. ACS Macro Lett 2018; 7:1046-1050. [PMID: 35650959 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Miktoarm star copolymers composed of three poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) arms connected to one polystyrene (PS) chain, i.e., PS-(PEO)3, demonstrated synergistic improvements in the ionic conductivity and mechanical strength by factors of 2-30 compared to those shown by PS-PEO diblock copolymers. Entropic constraints for the chain stretching of (PEO)3 gave rise to notably reduced domain sizes of PS-(PEO)3 electrolytes, compared with the values of PS-PEO analogues. Further, the melting transition of PS-(PEO)3 with PEO molecular weight of Mn = 2 kg mol-1 was vanished with lithium salt doping at [Li]/[EO] = 0.06 under such confinements, resulting in an order of magnitude increase in the room temperature conductivity. The fact that lithium ion transport in PEO-based copolymers can be tunable by the way PEO chains are connected to hard polymers can lead to innovative designs for solid-state polymer electrolytes.
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- Daeyeon Lee
- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea
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Glynos E, Petropoulou P, Mygiakis E, Nega AD, Pan W, Papoutsakis L, Giannelis EP, Sakellariou G, Anastasiadis SH. Leveraging Molecular Architecture To Design New, All-Polymer Solid Electrolytes with Simultaneous Enhancement in Modulus and Ionic Conductivity. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Emmanouil Glynos
- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O.
Box 1385, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O.
Box 1385, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografrou, 15 771 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografrou, 15 771 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O.
Box 1385, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 710 03 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografrou, 15 771 Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O.
Box 1385, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 710 03 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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Jang HK, Jung BM, Choi UH, Lee SB. Ion Conduction and Viscoelastic Response of Epoxy-Based Solid Polymer Electrolytes Containing Solvating Plastic Crystal Plasticizer. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201700514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Hye Kyeong Jang
- Functional Composites Department; Korea Institute of Materials Science; Changwon 51508 South Korea
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- Functional Composites Department; Korea Institute of Materials Science; Changwon 51508 South Korea
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- Department of Polymer Engineering; Pukyong National University; Busan 48547 South Korea
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- Functional Composites Department; Korea Institute of Materials Science; Changwon 51508 South Korea
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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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Bergfelt A, Rubatat L, Mogensen R, Brandell D, Bowden T. d8-poly(methyl methacrylate)-poly[(oligo ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate] tri-block-copolymer electrolytes: Morphology, conductivity and battery performance. POLYMER 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2017.10.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [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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Sethuraman V, Mogurampelly S, Ganesan V. Ion transport mechanisms in lamellar phases of salt-doped PS-PEO block copolymer electrolytes. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:7793-7803. [PMID: 29057421 DOI: 10.1039/c7sm01345k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We use a multiscale simulation strategy to elucidate, at an atomistic level, the mechanisms underlying ion transport in the lamellar phase of polystyrene-polyethylene oxide (PS-PEO) block copolymer (BCP) electrolytes doped with LiPF6 salts. Explicitly, we compare the results obtained for ion transport in the microphase separated block copolymer melts to those for salt-doped PEO homopolymer melts. In addition, we also present results for dynamics of the ions individually in the PEO and PS domains of the BCP melt, and locally as a function of the distance from the lamellar interfaces. When compared to the PEO homopolymer melt, ions were found to exhibit slower dynamics in both the block copolymer (overall) and in the PEO phase of the BCP melt. Such results are shown to arise from the effects of slower polymer segmental dynamics in the BCP melt and the coordination characteristics of the ions. Polymer backbone-ion residence times analyzed as a function of distance from the interface indicate that ions have a larger residence time near the interface compared to that near the bulk of lamella, and demonstrates the influence of the glassy PS blocks and microphase segregation on the ion transport properties. Ion transport mechanisms in BCP melts reveal that there exist five distinct mechanisms for ion transport along the backbone of the chain and exhibit qualitative differences from the behavior in homopolymer melts. We also present results as a function of salt concentration which show that the mean-squared displacements of the ions decrease with increasing salt concentration, and that the ion residence times near the polymer backbone increase with increasing salt concentration.
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- Vaidyanathan Sethuraman
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
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Zhang J, Deubler R, Hartlieb M, Martin L, Tanaka J, Patyukova E, Topham PD, Schacher FH, Perrier S. Evolution of Microphase Separation with Variations of Segments of Sequence-Controlled Multiblock Copolymers. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Aston Institute of Materials Research, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, U.K
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- Aston Institute of Materials Research, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, U.K
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- Faculty of Pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
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Glynos E, Papoutsakis L, Pan W, Giannelis EP, Nega AD, Mygiakis E, Sakellariou G, Anastasiadis SH. Nanostructured Polymer Particles as Additives for High Conductivity, High Modulus Solid Polymer Electrolytes. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Emmanouil Glynos
- Institute
of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O.
Box 1385, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Institute
of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O.
Box 1385, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 710 03 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis
Zografrou, 15 771 Athens, Greece
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- Department
of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis
Zografrou, 15 771 Athens, Greece
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- Department
of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis
Zografrou, 15 771 Athens, Greece
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- Institute
of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, P.O.
Box 1385, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 710 03 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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Ping J, Pan H, Hou PP, Zhang MY, Wang X, Wang C, Chen J, Wu D, Shen Z, Fan XH. Solid Polymer Electrolytes with Excellent High-Temperature Properties Based on Brush Block Copolymers Having Rigid Side Chains. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:6130-6137. [PMID: 28128925 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b15893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A series of brush block copolymers (BBCPs) with polynorbornene backbones containing poly{2,5-bis[(4-methoxyphenyl)oxycarbonyl]styrene} (PMPCS, which is a rigid chain) and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) side chains were synthesized by tandem ring-opening metathesis polymerizations. The weight fractions of PEO in BBCPs are similar, and the degrees of polymerization (DPs) of PEO side chains are the same while the DPs of PMPCS are different. The bulk self-assembling behaviors were studied by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The neat BBCPs cannot form ordered nanostructures. However, after the doping of lithium salt, the BBCPs self-assemble into lamellar (LAM) structures. When the DPs of the PEO and PMPCS side chains are similar, the LAM structure is more ordered, which is attributed to the more flat interface between PMPCS and PEO phases. The ionic conductivity (σ) values of the BBCP/lithium salt complex with the most ordered LAM structure at different temperatures were measured. The σ value increases with increasing temperature in the range of 40-200 °C, and the relationship between σ and T fits the Vogel-Tamman-Fulcher (VTF) equation. The σ value at 200 °C is 1.58 × 10-3 S/cm, which is one of the highest values for PEO-based polymer electrolytes. These materials with high σ values at high temperatures may be used in high-temperature lithium ion batteries.
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- Jing Ping
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China
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