Ion jelly: a tailor-made conducting material for smart electrochemical devices.
We present a new concept for the design of a polymeric conducting material that combines the chemical versatility of an organic salt (ionic liquid) with the morphological versatility of a biopolymer (gelatin); the resulting 'ion jelly' can be applied in electrochemical devices, such as batteries, fuel cells, electrochromic windows or photovoltaic cells.
Vidinha
Pedro
P
REQUIMTE/CQFB, Departamento de Química, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal. pvidinha@dq.fct.unl.pt
Lourenço
Nuno M T
NM
Pinheiro
Carlos
C
Brás
Ana R
AR
Carvalho
Tânia
T
Santos-Silva
Teresa
T
Mukhopadhyay
Abhik
A
Romão
Maria J
MJ
Parola
Jorge
J
Dionisio
Madalena
M
Cabral
Joaquim M S
JM
Afonso
Carlos A M
CA
Barreiros
Susana
S
D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005780:Gelatin / Q000737:chemistry; D052578:Ionic Liquids / Q000737:chemistry*; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
D052578:Ionic Liquids; D005780:Gelatin