Structure-Conductivity Relationships of Block Copolymer Membranes Based on Hydrated Protic Polymerized Ionic Liquids: Effect of Domain Spacing

Macromolecules

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2216-2223

  Sanoja, Gabriel E ^a,b,d   Popere, Bhooshan C ^d   Beckingham, Bryan S ^b   Evans, Christopher M ^d   Lynd, Nathaniel A ^b,c   Segalman, Rachel A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; HYDRATION; IONIC CONDUCTIVITY; IONS; LIQUIDS; X RAY SCATTERING;

AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE; BLOCK COPOLYMER MEMBRANES; ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES; HIGH PERFORMANCE MATERIAL; MOBILE CHARGE CARRIERS; POLYMERIZED IONIC LIQUIDS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84962054186     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02614     Document Type: Article

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