Fluids and electrolytes under confinement in single-digit nanopores

NR Aluru, F Aydin, MZ Bazant, D Blankschtein… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

Aryl ether-free polymer electrolytes for electrochemical and energy devices

EJ Park, P Jannasch, K Miyatake, C Bae… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Anion exchange polymers (AEPs) play a crucial role in green hydrogen production through
anion exchange membrane water electrolysis. The chemical stability of AEPs is paramount …

Advanced functional liquid crystals

J Uchida, B Soberats, M Gupta, T Kato - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals have been intensively studied as functional materials. Recently, integration of
various disciplines has led to new directions in the design of functional liquid‐crystalline …

Linear block copolymer synthesis

H Dau, GR Jones, E Tsogtgerel, D Nguyen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Block copolymers form the basis of the most ubiquitous materials such as thermoplastic
elastomers, bridge interphases in polymer blends, and are fundamental for the development …

Block copolymer self‐assembly directed synthesis of porous materials with ordered bicontinuous structures and their potential applications

L **ang, Q Li, C Li, Q Yang, F Xu, Y Mai - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Porous materials with their ordered bicontinuous structures have attracted great interest
owing to ordered periodic structures as well as 3D interconnected network and pore …

Self-assembly of block copolymers towards mesoporous materials for energy storage and conversion systems

C Li, Q Li, YV Kaneti, D Hou, Y Yamauchi… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) provides a versatile strategy for controllable
preparation of a broad range of functional materials with different ordered structures. In …

Emerging trends in polymerization-induced self-assembly

NJW Penfold, J Yeow, C Boyer, SP Armes - ACS Macro Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this Perspective, we summarize recent progress in polymerization-induced self-assembly
(PISA) for the rational synthesis of block copolymer nanoparticles with various …

Hierarchical 3D electrodes for electrochemical energy storage

H Sun, J Zhu, D Baumann, L Peng, Y Xu… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery and development of electrode materials promise superior energy or power
density. However, good performance is typically achieved only in ultrathin electrodes with …

Polymer-derived heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials

H Wang, Y Shao, S Mei, Y Lu, M Zhang, J Sun… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials (HPCMs) have found extensive applications in
adsorption/separation, organic catalysis, sensing, and energy conversion/storage. The …

Solvent-non-solvent rapid-injection for preparing nanostructured materials from micelles to hydrogels

C Lang, JA LaNasa, N Utomo, Y Xu, MJ Nelson… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Due to their distinctive molecular architecture, ABA triblock copolymers will undergo specific
self-assembly processes into various nanostructures upon introduction into a B-block …