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Book The Influence of Side Chain Modifications on Transport in Polymeric Mixed Ionic electronic Conductors

Download or read book The Influence of Side Chain Modifications on Transport in Polymeric Mixed Ionic electronic Conductors written by Jonathan William Onorato and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed ionic/electronic conducting polymers (MIECs) are an important emerging class of materials, with rising interest due to the wide range of applications enabled by their unique properties. Recent research efforts have begun to focus on developing homopolymer-based MIECs by introducing ion-conducting side chains in place of alkyl chains that are more traditional for conjugated polymers. It has been widely shown that side chain variations in conjugated polymers have a significant effect on polymer electronic conduction; however, understanding of the influence of side chain variation for MIEC polymers on both the ionic and electronic conduction for MIECs remains limited, and optimization efforts have been largely Edisonian. This work seeks to expand on the field's understanding of these MIEC materials and the interplay between side chains and ionic conduction, focusing on enabling predictive understanding of their material properties. First, we explore, the influence of the connection for an oligoethylene glycol side chain, either with an oxygen atom directly attached to the polymer backbone, or with a methylene bridge, highlighting the importance of proximity of the oxygen atom to the polymer backbone on ionic conductivity. We follow this with an investigation into varying the concentration and position of oxygen atoms of an oligoethylene glycol side chain, highlighting the influence that subtle changes in oxygen atom placement have on the polymer morphology, and polymer interactions with lithium salts.

Book Machine learning assisted Molecular Dynamics of Side chain Chemistry of Polymer with Improved Ionic Conductivity

Download or read book Machine learning assisted Molecular Dynamics of Side chain Chemistry of Polymer with Improved Ionic Conductivity written by Allen Yang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixed ionic/electronic polymer-based conductors(MIECs) are promising materials and have been widely used for a variety of applications in recent years, ranging from energy devices (batteries, fuel cells) to robotics and biomaterials (biosensors, biointerfaces). The design of MIECs involves a combination of multiple targeted properties such as a percolated phase architecture, balanced electronic/ionic conduction, flexibility and mechanical strength. By using a unique chain architecture that couples organic substituents (e.g., polythiolphenes) which are capable of electronic conductivity with ionic conductive hydrophilic blocks (e.g., ionic liquids and polyethylene glycol), the electronic conducting blocks are able to self-assemble into a crystalline structure while the ionic blocks remain amorphous inside percolating channels. Our research centers on designing ionic blocks with improved ionic conductivity within MIEC materials. To evaluate the ionic performance of different side chain chemistry in the ionic blocks, I will adopt a normalized ionic conductivity score. This score is calculated from molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and takes into account not only the ionic mobility and the number of mobile ions, but also the dissociation energy of ion pairs. In the traditional approach to material design, researchers usually synthesize the new materials based on intuition and prior experience. Such an approach, however, is rather inefficient due to the large size of the chemical space and the modest predictive accuracy of material properties based on limited experience. I propose to establish a new design approach that integrates MD and machine learning (ML) to efficiently sample the design space. By combining the advantages of high-throughput screening strategies and the accurate simulation of ionic transport afforded by our MD model, I can largely accelerate the material discovery process.

Book Semiconducting Polymers

Download or read book Semiconducting Polymers written by Georges Hadziioannou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of semiconducting polymers has attracted many researchers from a diversity of disciplines. Printed circuitry, flexible electronics and displays are already migrating from laboratory successes to commercial applications, but even now fundamental knowledge is deficient concerning some of the basic phenomena that so markedly influence a device's usefulness and competitiveness. This two-volume handbook describes the various approaches to doped and undoped semiconducting polymers taken with the aim to provide vital understanding of how to control the properties of these fascinating organic materials. Prominent researchers from the fields of synthetic chemistry, physical chemistry, engineering, computational chemistry, theoretical physics, and applied physics cover all aspects from compounds to devices. Since the first edition was published in 2000, significant findings and successes have been achieved in the field, and especially handheld electronic gadgets have become billion-dollar markets that promise a fertile application ground for flexible, lighter and disposable alternatives to classic silicon circuitry. The second edition brings readers up-to-date on cutting edge research in this field.

Book Organic Thermoelectric Materials

Download or read book Organic Thermoelectric Materials written by Zhiqun Lin and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarises the significant progress made in organic thermoelectric materials, focusing on effective routes to minimize thermal conductivity and maximize power factor.

Book Computational Modelling of the Effect of Side Chain Chemistry on the Micro structure and Electrolyte Interactions of Mixed Transport Polymers

Download or read book Computational Modelling of the Effect of Side Chain Chemistry on the Micro structure and Electrolyte Interactions of Mixed Transport Polymers written by Nicholas Siemons and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Structural Control of Mixed Ionic and Electronic Transport in Conducting Polymers

Download or read book Structural Control of Mixed Ionic and Electronic Transport in Conducting Polymers written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(styrenesulfonate), PEDOT:PSS, has been utilized for over two decades as a stable, solution-processable hole conductor. While its hole transport properties have been the subject of intense investigation, recent work has turned to PEDOT:PSS as a mixed ionic/electronic conductor in applications including bioelectronics, energy storage and management, and soft robotics. Conducting polymers can efficiently transport both holes and ions when sufficiently hydrated, however, little is known about the role of morphology on mixed conduction. Here, we show that bulk ionic and electronic mobilities are simultaneously affected by processing-induced changes in nano- and meso-scale structure in PEDOT:PSS films. We quantify domain composition, and find that domain purification on addition of dispersion co-solvents limits ion mobility, even while electronic conductivity improves. We show that an optimal morphology allows for the balanced ionic and electronic transport that is critical for prototypical mixed conductor devices. As a result, these findings may pave the way for the rational design of polymeric materials and processing routes to enhance devices reliant on mixed conduction.

Book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conducting Polymers

    Book Details:
  • Author : György Inzelt
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-04-08
  • ISBN : 3540759301
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Conducting Polymers written by György Inzelt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic survey of the knowledge accumulated in this field in the last thirty years. It includes material on the thermodynamic aspects of the polymers, the theory of the mechanism of charge transport processes, and the chemical and physical properties of these compounds. Also covered are the techniques of characterization, the electrochemical methods of synthesis, and the application of these systems. Inzelt’s book is a must-read for electrochemists and others.

Book Electronic and Ionic Transport in Processable Conducting Polymers

Download or read book Electronic and Ionic Transport in Processable Conducting Polymers written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Final Report for this grant and includes major results along with publications. Some results noted include preparation and study of a low band-gap transparent conducting polymer, poly(1,4-bis(2-heteroaryl)-p- phenylenes), electroactive transition metal containing polymers and conducting polymer composites. In addition, many studies dealing with ion transport upon redox switching of these electroactive polymers have been carried out and new probes to monitor these ion fluxes have been developed. A highly efficient polypyrrole platinum nano-composite, with useful catalytic properties has also been developed. Accurate theoretical and computational techniques, along with a modified Extended Huckel band structure procedure, have been developed ... Conducting polymers, Ion transport, Electroactive polymers, Redox switching, Polymer composites, Molecular orbital calculations, Band structures.

Book Optics of Conducting Polymer Thin Films and Nanostructures

Download or read book Optics of Conducting Polymer Thin Films and Nanostructures written by Shangzhi Chen and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrinsically conducting polymers forms a category of doped conjugated polymers that can conduct electricity. Since their discovery in the late 1970s, they have been widely applied in many fields, ranging from optoelectronic devices to biosensors. The most common type of conducting polymers is poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), or PEDOT. PEDOT has been popularly used as electrodes for solar cells or light-emitting diodes, as channels for organic electrochemical transistors, and as p-type legs for organic thermoelectric generators. Although many studies have been dedicated to PEDOT-based materials, there has been a lack of a unified model to describe their optical properties across different spectral ranges. In addition, the interesting optical properties of PEDOT-based materials, benefiting from its semi-metallic character, have only been rarely studied and utilized, and could potentially enable new applications. Plasmonics is a research field focusing on interactions between light and metals, such as the noble metals (gold and silver). It has enabled various opportunities in fundamental photonics as well as practical applications, varying from biosensors to colour displays. This thesis explores highly conducting polymers as alternatives to noble metals and as a new type of active plasmonic materials. Despite high degrees of microstructural disorder, conducting polymers can possess electrical conductivity approaching that of poor metals, with particularly high conductivity for PEDOT deposited via vapour phase polymerization (VPP). In this thesis, we systematically studied the optical and structural properties of VPP PEDOT thin films and their nanostructures for plasmonics and other optical applications. We employed ultra-wide spectral range ellipsometry to characterize thin VPP PEDOT films and proposed an anisotropic Drude-Lorentz model to describe their optical conductivity, covering the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and terahertz ranges. Based on this model, PEDOT doped with tosylate (PEDOT:Tos) presented negative real permittivity in the near infrared range. While this indicated optical metallic character, the material also showed comparably large imaginary permittivity and associated losses. To better understand the VPP process, we carefully examined films with a collection of microstructural and spectroscopic characterization methods and found a vertical layer stratification in these polymer films. We unveiled the cause as related to unbalanced transport of polymerization precursors. By selection of suitable counterions, e.g., trifluoromethane sulfonate (OTf), and optimization of reaction conditions, we were able to obtain PEDOT films with electrical conductivity exceeding 5000 S/cm. In the near infrared range from 1 to 5 µm, these PEDOT:OTf films provided a well-defined plasmonic regime, characterized by negative real permittivity and lower magnitude imaginary component. Using a colloidal lithography-based approach, we managed to fabricate nanodisks of PEDOT:OTf and showed that they exhibited clear plasmonic absorption features. The experimental results matched theoretical calculations and numerical simulations. Benefiting from their mixed ionic-electronic conducting characters, such organic plasmonic materials possess redox-tunable properties that make them promising as tuneable optical nanoantennas for spatiotemporally dynamic systems. Finally, we presented a low-cost and efficient method to create structural colour surfaces and images based on UV-treated PEDOT films on metallic mirrors. The concept generates beautiful and vivid colours through-out the visible range utilizing a synergistic effect of simultaneously modulating polymer absorption and film thickness. The simplicity of the device structure, facile fabrication process, and tunability make this proof-of-concept device a potential candidate for future low-cost backlight-free displays and labels.

Book Wearable Bioelectronics

Download or read book Wearable Bioelectronics written by Anthony P.F. Turner and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearable Bioelectronics presents the latest on physical and (bio)chemical sensing for wearable electronics. It covers the miniaturization of bioelectrodes and high-throughput biosensing platforms while also presenting a systemic approach for the development of electrochemical biosensors and bioelectronics for biomedical applications. The book addresses the fundamentals, materials, processes and devices for wearable bioelectronics, showcasing key applications, including device fabrication, manufacturing, and healthcare applications. Topics covered include self-powering wearable bioelectronics, electrochemical transducers, textile-based biosensors, epidermal electronics and other exciting applications. Includes comprehensive and systematic coverage of the most exciting and promising bioelectronics, processes for their fabrication, and their applications in healthcare Reviews innovative applications, such as self-powering wearable bioelectronics, electrochemical transducers, textile-based biosensors and electronic skin Examines and discusses the future of wearable bioelectronics Addresses the wearable electronics market as a development of the healthcare industry

Book Fast Ion Transport in Solids

    Book Details:
  • Author : B. Scrosati
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9401119163
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Fast Ion Transport in Solids written by B. Scrosati and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main motivation for the organization of the Advanced Research Workshop in Belgirate was the promotion of discussions on the most recent issues and the future perspectives in the field of Solid State lonics. The location was chosen on purpose since Belgirate was the place were twenty years ago, also then under the sponsorship of NATO, the very first international meeting on this important and interdisciplinary field took place. That meeting was named "Fast Ion Transport in Solids" and gathered virtually everybody at that time having been active in any aspect of motion of ions in solids. The original Belgirate Meeting made for the first time visible the technological potential related to the phenomenon of the fast ionic transport in solids and, accordingly, the field was given the name "Solid State lonics". This field is now expanded to cover a wide range of technologies which includes chemical sensors for environmental and process control, electrochromic windows, mirrors and displays, fuel cells, high performance rechargeable batteries for stationary applications and electrotraction, chemotronics, semiconductor ionics, water electrolysis cells for hydrogen economy and other applications. The main idea for holding an anniversary meeting was that of discussing the most recent issues and the future perspectives of Solid State lonics just twenty years after it has started at the same location on the lake Maggiore in North Italy.

Book Doping in Conjugated Polymers

Download or read book Doping in Conjugated Polymers written by Pradip Kar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-to-Z of doping including its definition, its importance, methods of measurement, advantages and disadvantages, properties and characteristics—and role in conjugated polymers The versatility of polymer materials is expanding because of the introduction of electro-active behavior into the characteristics of some of them. The most exciting development in this area is related to the discovery of intrinsically conductive polymers or conjugated polymers, which include such examples as polyacetylene, polyaniline, polypyrrole, and polythiophene as well as their derivatives. "Synmet" or "synthetic metal" conjugated polymers, with their metallic characteristics, including conductivity, are of special interest to researchers. An area of limitless potential and application, conjugated polymers have sparked enormous interest, beginning in 2000 when the Nobel Prize for the discovery and development of electrically conducting conjugated polymers was awarded to three scientists: Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa. Conjugated polymers have a combination of properties—both metallic (conductivity) and polymeric; doping gives the conjugated polymer's semiconducting a wide range of conductivity, from insulating to low conducting. The doping process is a tested effective method for producing conducting polymers as semiconducting material, providing a substitute for inorganic semiconductors. Doping in Conjugated Polymers is the first book dedicated to the subject and offers a comprehensive A-to-Z overview. It details doping interaction, dopant types, doping techniques, and the influence of the dopant on applications. It explains how the performance of doped conjugated polymers is greatly influenced by the nature of the dopants and their level of distribution within the polymer, and shows how the electrochemical, mechanical, and optical properties of the doped conjugated polymers can be tailored by controlling the size and mobility of the dopants counter ions. The book also examines doping at the nanoscale, in particular, with carbon nanotubes. Readership The book will interest a broad range of researchers including chemists, electrochemists, biochemists, experimental and theoretical physicists, electronic and electrical engineers, polymer and materials scientists. It can also be used in both graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses on conjugated polymers and polymer technology.

Book Functionalized Inorganic Semiconductor Nanomaterials  Characterization  Properties  and Applications

Download or read book Functionalized Inorganic Semiconductor Nanomaterials Characterization Properties and Applications written by Kezhen Qi and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Book Handbook of Materials Modeling

Download or read book Handbook of Materials Modeling written by Sidney Yip and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-17 with total page 2903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference of its kind in the rapidly emerging field of computational approachs to materials research, this is a compendium of perspective-providing and topical articles written to inform students and non-specialists of the current status and capabilities of modelling and simulation. From the standpoint of methodology, the development follows a multiscale approach with emphasis on electronic-structure, atomistic, and mesoscale methods, as well as mathematical analysis and rate processes. Basic models are treated across traditional disciplines, not only in the discussion of methods but also in chapters on crystal defects, microstructure, fluids, polymers and soft matter. Written by authors who are actively participating in the current development, this collection of 150 articles has the breadth and depth to be a major contributor toward defining the field of computational materials. In addition, there are 40 commentaries by highly respected researchers, presenting various views that should interest the future generations of the community. Subject Editors: Martin Bazant, MIT; Bruce Boghosian, Tufts University; Richard Catlow, Royal Institution; Long-Qing Chen, Pennsylvania State University; William Curtin, Brown University; Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou, MIT; Mark F. Horstemeyer, Mississippi State University; Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University; L. Mahadevan, Harvard University; Dimitrios Maroudas, University of Massachusetts; Nicola Marzari, MIT; Horia Metiu, University of California Santa Barbara; Gregory C. Rutledge, MIT; David J. Srolovitz, Princeton University; Bernhardt L. Trout, MIT; Dieter Wolf, Argonne National Laboratory.

Book PEDOT

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andreas Elschner
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2010-11-02
  • ISBN : 1420069128
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book PEDOT written by Andreas Elschner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there is information available in handbooks on polythiophene chemistry and physics, until now, few if any books have focused exclusively on the most forwardly developed electrically conductive polymer, Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-otherwise known as PEDOT. This resource provides full chemical, physical, and technical information about this important conducting polymer, discussing basic knowledge and exploring its technical applications. Presented information is based on information generated at universities and through academic research, as well as by industrial scientists, providing a complete picture of the experimental and the practical aspects of this important polymer.