Electrochemical energy storage devices are becoming increasingly important to our global
society, and polymer materials are key components of these devices. As the demand for …

Most of the current commercialized lithium batteries employ liquid electrolytes, despite their
vulnerability to battery fire hazards, because they avoid the formation of dendrites on the …

Vitrimers are an emerging new class of permanently cross-linked polymeric materials that
show a liquid behavior upon heating wherein the macroscopic deformation is controlled by …

Polymer electrolytes (PEs) have been long recognized as the key materials to enable
energy‐dense batteries and render flexible energy devices practically viable, owing to their …

Solid-state polymer electrolytes can enable the safe operation of high energy density lithium
metal batteries; unfortunately, they have low ionic conductivity and poor redox stability at …

Rechargeable batteries that use Li metal as anode are regarded as the most viable
alternative to state-of-the-art lithium ion batteries (LIBs), since Li metal batteries (LMBs) are …

Lithium metal batteries with high energy densities can enable a revolution in energy storage
and accelerate shifts in electric transportation and electricity generation. However, several …

Solid polymer electrolytes are of rapidly increasing importance for the research and
development of future safe batteries with high energy density. The diversified chemistry and …

Perfluoropolyalkylethers (PFPAEs) are a class of fluorinated polymers having− OCF2–,−
OCF2CF2–, and− OCF2CF (CF3)–as common chain units. The ether linkages distinguish …

The internal potential profile and electric field are major factors controlling the electronic
behavior of molecular electronic junctions consisting of∼ 1–10 nm thick layers of molecules …