Conspectus Ion-containing solid block polymer (BP) electrolytes can self-assemble into
microphase-separated domains to facilitate the independent optimization of ion conduction …

Polymers that simultaneously transport electrons and ions are paramount to drive the
technological advances necessary for next-generation electrochemical devices, including …

Exploring a simple, on-demanding method of manipulating ionic conduction of ionic liquids
with large amplitudes is a challenging task. Here, a reversible ion-conducting switch was …

Polymer sequence engineering is emerging as a potential tool to modulate material
properties. Here, we employ a combination of a genetic algorithm (GA) and atomistic …

Linear polymers with the same monomer units and different molecular weights form miscible
blends considered to be single polymers, but the situation changes if one is hyperbranched …

Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) are a key component of solid-state lithium metal batteries.
For attaining high ionic conductivity and high mechanical strength simultaneously …

Polyelectrolyte complexation offers unique opportunities to compatibilize polymers with very
different backbone chemistries and to control the morphology of the resulting blend via …

Field theoretic simulations are used to predict the equilibrium phase diagram of symmetric
blends of AB diblock copolymer with A-and B-type homopolymers. Experiments generally …

Ternary blends comprising a diblock copolymer and the corresponding homopolymers
provide ready access to a variety of morphologies, but the impact of charge on their phase …

We describe the structural studies of microemulsions (μEs) prepared from water, toluene,
butanol, and polysorbate 20 (PS20) that we recently used as electrolytes. Small-angle …