Ion jelly: a tailor-made conducting material for smart electrochemical devices

Pedro Vidinha; Nuno M. T. Lourenço; Carlos Pinheiro; Ana R. Brás; Tânia Carvalho; Teresa Santos-Silva; Abhik Mukhopadhyay; Maria J. Romão; Jorge Parola; Madalena Dionisio; Joaquim M. S. Cabral; Carlos A. M. Afonso; Susana Barreiros

doi:10.1039/B811647D

Ion jelly: a tailor-made conducting material for smart electrochemical devices†

Pedro Vidinha,*^a Nuno M. T. Lourenço,^ab Carlos Pinheiro,^a Ana R. Brás,^a Tânia Carvalho,^a Teresa Santos-Silva,^a Abhik Mukhopadhyay,^a Maria J. Romão,^a Jorge Parola,^a Madalena Dionisio,^a Joaquim M. S. Cabral,^b Carlos A. M. Afonso^c and Susana Barreiros*^a

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^b IBB – Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, Lisboa, Portugal

^c Centro de Química-Física Molecular and IN-Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

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.

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Ion jelly: a tailor-made conducting material for smart electrochemical devices†

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