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Advanced Functional Polymers for Energy and Environmental Applications
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Advanced Functional Polymers for Energy and Environmental Applications

A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 2032

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Hung-Ju Yen

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Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
Interests: nanographene; polymers; energy storage; optoelectronics
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Dr. Febri Baskoro

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Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
Interests: polymers; membranes; energy materials; energy storage; batteries
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Functional polymers have become increasingly more popular in academia and industry due to their unique features and wide-ranging applications. These unique features mainly depend on the presence of chemical functional groups in the polymeric matrixes that regulate their physical (size, shape, volume, mechanical), chemical (thermal, biodegradability), optical (absorption, fluorescence), or electrical (conductivity, magnetism, thermoelectricity) properties. Furthermore, other features on their cost effectiveness, short production time, outstanding dimensional stability, and chemical stability under extreme operation conditions have also made functional polymers represent one of the most promising candidates for extensive applications. Currently, they reveal great potential in a variety of fields including actuating fabrics, coatings, biomedical, energy, and environmental applications.

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to cover the most recent progress in advanced functional polymers, particularly focusing on (but not limited to) synthetic technologies, structural design, and functionalization and modification of new functional polymers. All the potential applications on energy and the environment, such as batteries, fuel cell, solar cell, membrane separation and purification, etc., as well as the structure–property relationships are also welcome in this issue. Original research articles and review papers related to functional polymers are welcome.

Dr. Hung-Ju Yen
Dr. Febri Baskoro
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Keywords

  • functional polymer
  • high-performance polymer
  • electronic
  • energy application
  • environmental application

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A New Method to Prepare Stable Polyaniline Dispersions for Highly Loaded Cathodes of All-Polymer Li-Ion Batteries
by Elena Tomšík, Daniil R. Nosov, Iryna Ivanko, Václav Pokorný, Magdalena Konefał, Zulfiya Černochová, Krzysztof Tadyszak, Daniel F. Schmidt and Alexander S. Shaplov
Polymers 2023, 15(11), 2508; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/polym15112508 - 29 May 2023
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A new method for the preparation of polyaniline (PANI) films that have a 2D structure and can record high active mass loading (up to 30 mg cm−2) via acid-assisted polymerization in the presence of concentrated formic acid was developed. This new [...] Read more.
A new method for the preparation of polyaniline (PANI) films that have a 2D structure and can record high active mass loading (up to 30 mg cm−2) via acid-assisted polymerization in the presence of concentrated formic acid was developed. This new approach represents a simple reaction pathway that proceeds quickly at room temperature in quantitative isolated yield with the absence of any byproducts and leads to the formation of a stable suspension that can be stored for a prolonged time without sedimentation. The observed stability was explained by two factors: (a) the small size of the obtained rod-like particles (50 nm) and (b) the change of the surface of colloidal PANI particles to a positively charged form by protonation with concentrated formic acid. The films cast from the concentrated suspension were composed of amorphous PANI chains assembled into 2D structures with nanofibrillar morphology. Such PANI films demonstrated fast and efficient diffusion of the ions in liquid electrolyte and showed a pair of revisable oxidation and reduction peaks in cyclic voltammetry. Furthermore, owing to the high mass loading, specific morphology, and porosity, the synthesized polyaniline film was impregnated by a single-ion conducting polyelectrolyte-poly(LiMn-r-PEGMm) and characterized as a novel lightweight all-polymeric cathode material for solid-state Li batteries by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy techniques. Full article
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