Dynamic and reconfigurable materials from reversible network interactions

MJ Webber, MW Tibbitt - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Polymer materials provide solutions to some of the most pressing environmental,
manufacturing and health-care challenges. Traditional thermoplastic and thermoset …

Designing polymers for advanced battery chemistries

J Lopez, DG Mackanic, Y Cui, Z Bao - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Sequencing polymers to enable solid-state lithium batteries

S Han, P Wen, H Wang, Y Zhou, Y Gu, L Zhang… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Rational designs of solid polymer electrolytes with high ion conduction are critical in
enabling the creation of advanced lithium batteries. However, known polymer electrolytes …

Disulfide-mediated reversible polymerization toward intrinsically dynamic smart materials

Q Zhang, DH Qu, BL Feringa… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of a dynamic chemistry toolbox to endow materials dynamic behavior has
been key to the rational design of future smart materials. The rise of supramolecular and …

Short hydrogen-bond network confined on COF surfaces enables ultrahigh proton conductivity

B Shi, X Pang, S Li, H Wu, J Shen, X Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The idea of spatial confinement has gained widespread interest in myriad applications.
Especially, the confined short hydrogen-bond (SHB) network could afford an attractive …

Weakly humidity‐dependent proton‐conducting COF membranes

L Cao, H Wu, Y Cao, C Fan, R Zhao, X He… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐the‐art proton exchange membranes (PEMs) often suffer from significantly reduced
conductivity under low relative humidity, hampering their efficient application in fuel cells …

Green synthesis of olefin-linked covalent organic frameworks for hydrogen fuel cell applications

Z Wang, Y Yang, Z Zhao, P Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Green synthesis of crystalline porous materials for energy-related applications is of great
significance but very challenging. Here, we create a green strategy to fabricate a highly …

Ion exchange membranes: constructing and tuning ion transport channels

P Zuo, Z Xu, Q Zhu, J Ran, L Ge, X Ge… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ion exchange membranes (IEMs) that can selectively transport ions are crucial to a variety of
applications, such as ion extraction/separation, fuel cells, redox flow batteries, and water …

Hydrophilic microporous membranes for selective ion separation and flow-battery energy storage

R Tan, A Wang, R Malpass-Evans, R Williams… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Membranes with fast and selective ion transport are widely used for water purification and
devices for energy conversion and storage including fuel cells, redox flow batteries and …

Current challenges and perspectives of polymer electrolyte membranes

X Ge, F Zhang, L Wu, Z Yang, T Xu - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer electrolyte membranes are charged polymers in the membrane shape, which can
separate the anode reaction from the cathode reaction, allowing the fabrication of compact …