All-Solid-State Polymer Electrolyte with Efficiency and Stability Superior to Its Smectic Precursor for Photoelectrochemical Devices was written by Zhou, Jiwen;Wang, Caihong;Zhang, Xiaoqian;Luo, Jie;Ji, Junyi;Wu, Yong;Tan, Shuai. And the article was included in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research in 2021.Category: imidazoles-derivatives This article mentions the following:
All-solid-state electrolytes have attracted wide interest for versatile energy devices owing to their stability improvement toward sustainable applications; however, the low conductivity and interfacial contact remain to be addressed. Herein, a facile method was proposed for preparing superior all-solid-state electrolytes from ionic liquid crystals. A vinylimidazolium thiolate/disulfide redox-based lamellar nanostructured electrolyte showing a smectic mesophase was prepared as a precursor, and flexible polyethylene oxide (PEO) was introduced to gel the smectic domains of the precursor to form a microphase segregation nanostructure. The PEO chains assembled at domain interfaces could significantly improve the charge transport through the smectic domain boundaries in the electrolyte. The dynamic liquid crystal gel was first assembled in a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) to provide good interfacial contact, and then, in situ polymerization was performed to fabricate an all-solid-state electrolyte. The microphase segregation nanostructure was well maintained within the polymerized electrolytes for efficient charge transport. Thus, the all-solid-state electrolytes exhibited ion conductivity, thermal stability, and DSSC efficiency much superior to its smectic precursor despite the loss of fluidity. The work here sheds new light on developing desirable all-solid-state electrolytes from ionic liquid crystals for energy devices. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, 1-Methylbenzimidazole (cas: 1632-83-3Category: imidazoles-derivatives).
1-Methylbenzimidazole (cas: 1632-83-3) belongs to imidazole derivatives. 1H-imidazole is an imidazole tautomer which has the migrating hydrogen at position 1. It is a conjugate base of an imidazolium cation. It is a conjugate acid of an imidazolide. It is a tautomer of a 4H-imidazole. Imidazole has been usedin the lysis, wash and elution buffer for the purification of histidine tagged Sonic Hedgehog(shh-N) protein, in elution buffer in stepwise gradient for the purification of histidine tagged aldo keto reductases using nickel affinity chromatography, as a component of homogenization buffer for the purification of phagosomal compartments from dendritic cells.Category: imidazoles-derivatives
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